Areas of Practice

 Our expertise also lies in training in the evaluation of professional competencies, in the analysis, development and validation of competency frameworks, instruments and documentary research supporting any evaluation process. We offer collaborative services focused on coaching rather than prescribing pre-designed tools. We encourage constant validation by the client in order to develop tools that meet the specific needs of the organization.

Learning assessment

 

  • Informal and formal learning assessment.

  • Skills and competencies evaluation.

  • Alignment with skills development and learning path.

Training evaluation

 

  • Informal and formal training evaluation.

  • Training efficiency and Results efficiency.

  • Different evaluation models can be used (Kirkpatrick, Phillips ROI, Brinkerhoff, CIRO, Kyndt Model).

Program evaluation and Impact studies

 

Any type of program : school, government, corporate, projects. Stufflebeam evaluation model.

Workshops, Conferences and Consultations

 

FARD can create and deliver cutting edge workshop on evaluation, Learning assessment and are available to review your training and evaluation program.

FARD has experience with the following partners:

Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers auxiliaires du Québec (2021-ongoing).

 ▪ Accompanying the Ordre in the development and validation of professional competency assessment instruments

Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec (2021-ongoing)

▪ Accompany a team from the Ordre to determine the various needs, select the most appropriate instrumentation for each stage of the evaluation process, and establish the validation procedures.

Ordre des hygiénistes dentaires du Québec (2020- ongoing).

▪ Accompany the Ordre in the development and validation of competency assessment tools.

Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés (2020- ongoing)

▪ Accompany the College in reviewing evaluative practices in admission and equivalency files.

The Quebec Bar (2019-ongoing) 

Accompany the management of the Bar School in the implementation of new articling assessment instruments. Accompany the leader in drafting and developing instrumentation for the assessment of professional skills at QBE. Fulfill the training needs of members of the Professional Education Committee and the Examination and Program Committee to develop their expertise regarding the assessment process: from writing the competency framework to assessing competencies in professional situations.

 Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (2017- ongoing).

Approve the results of the professional examination for PHNs, act as an advisor on the evaluative aspects pertaining to the certification of nursing specialties, accompany a reflection process on the mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) process for professional qualifications between Quebec and France with regard to the design and validation of instruments, Validation of interview questions related to integration into the nursing profession in Quebec and development of a criterion-based descriptive grid for the element of competency 2: The graduate nurse from outside Quebec performs the initial assessment of the person or the assessment during the person's development.

Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec, OEQ (2016- 2018)

▪ Design a new certifying assessment design in a competency-based approach for candidates coming from abroad or those wanting to re-enter the profession and having left it more than three years ago.

Académie de massage scientifique and the Réseau des massothérapeutes professionnels du Québec (2015- 2020)

▪ Design a new certificate evaluation design in a competency-based approach for the field of massage therapy based on the training provided for massage practitioners, massage therapists, massage therapist specialists, and orthotherapists

Assessment expertise for the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF), Service de l'évaluation du français pour les ordres professionnels (2014- 2018)

▪ Developed a new language skills assessment design based on a constructivist problem-based approach contextualized to each professional setting to assess the language skills of more than two thousand candidates per year from some forty professions. To do so, we will:

Assessment expertise for the Ordre des géologues du Québec, OGQ (2012-2015)

▪ Design instrumentation to track the progress of geologist trainees from the time they leave their university training until they pass the certification exam. Recognition of prior learning for foreign geologists.