Censeo provides a wide range of data analysis and validation consulting services. Projects are sometimes related to assessments and systems we have helped clients with, and other times the data and research questions may be completely independent.

The Business Need
System/process owners are increasingly being challenged to prove that the systems are valid and that they are truly adding value to the organization. That proof often requires quantitative data analysis, statistical procedures, and scientific validation studies. Many companies do not have the internal expertise to perform professional research studies of this nature, or if they do have the expertise, those resources may be better deployed elsewhere.

The Solution
Censeo’s Ph.D. level Industrial-Organizational Psychologists have had extensive training in statistics and validation methodologies, and many years experience in conducting rigorous, quantitative data analysis studies in major organizations. These are some examples of the types of research conducted:

• Validation studies: establishing the content validity or predictive validity of assessments or selection/development systems.
• Level-4 evaluations: measuring the impact of training or other interventions on organizational outcome variables.
• ROI studies:calculating the return on investment for training or other interventions.
• Efficiency studies: identifying opportunities to streamline a process and make it less costly, faster, more accurate, etc.
• System evaluations: studying the effectiveness and benefits of a multi-stage selection system to determine which tools/steps are adding the most value.

Key Benefits

• Expertise to ensure research studies meet professional standards and legal requirements.
• Thorough documentation in the form of technical research reports and summary presentations suitable for management.
• Evaluations to justify the continued expenditure of resources on programs (or to demonstrate that they should be replaced with alternatives that would add more value).
• Measures of compliance issues in addition to impact issues (i.e., the extent to which processes and systems are used as intended).