Assurance of Learning Assessment
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An Employer Update on the SHRM
Assurance of Learning® Assessment
Agenda
How does SHRM encourage students to prepare for a career
in HR?
– Career Development Pathway
What is the Assurance of Learning Assessment?
Why is it important for employers to be familiar with the
Assurance of Learning Assessment
– Capstone to Graduation: The SHRM Assurance of
Learning® Assessment
The Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning®
Assessment
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Career Development Pathway
Your path to a successful career in HR
Education
Competencies,
Life-long Learning
& Certification
Working and
Staying
Connected
Internships
Assessment
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And WHY SHOULD EMPLOYERS CARE?
What is it?
A knowledge-based, capstone exam designed to:
– provide HR students with an achievement, by passing a national exit
exam, to help them differentiate themselves in the job marketplace;
– show potential employers that the student has acquired the
knowledge required to enter the HR profession;
– help universities meet their accrediting body’s requirements by
showing that the HR degree program teaches its students what it
says it will teach them
– Replace the PHR for traditional students
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Content Areas Covered
Employee & Labor Relations
– Employee and Labor
Relations
– Negotiation Skills
Employment Law
– Employment Law
– Risk Management:
Occupational Health, Safety,
and Security
Strategic HR
– HR and Globalization
– HR and Organizational
Strategy
– HR Mergers and Acquisitions
– Leadership Skills
– Managing Diversity
Total Rewards
– Employee Benefits
– Total Rewards
Training and Development
– Career Planning
– Training & Development
Workforce Planning and Talent
Management
– HR Information Systems
– Measuring HR Outcomes:
Metrics and the Bottom Line
– Performance Management
– Staffing: Recruitment and
Selection
– Workforce Planning & Talent
Management
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Exam Basics
Knowledge Exam
160 multiple choice questions
– 70% recall
– 30% application of knowledge
Pass rate = 62%
Certificate of Learning awarded to those who
pass.
Three(3) 30-day test windows annually.
– Spring, summer, fall to coincide with
commencement
Costs
– Members $135 / Nonmembers $210
– Review materials available
Apply online @ www.shrm.org/assessment
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Who is eligible to take the assessment?
Undergraduate students and graduate students
with little to no HR work experience
Must be earning an HR or HR-related degree in a
school of business or I/O psychology program
Must be studying HR-specific courses.
Must be studying HR-related content areas tested
on the exam.
May take the exam beginning 1 year before
graduation and ending 1 year after graduation
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What does passing the exam show an employer?
Over time, test has proven to be both reliable and
valid
Difficulty measures show that the test is difficult
but fair
Differentiation measures show the test items
appropriately differentiate between those students
who know HR and those who do not
Slightly more difficult than PHR exam because it
includes 30% application questions
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Employers Guide to the SHRM Assurance of Learning
Assessment
Shows details of how test was developed
– Test specifications
– Quality control measures
– How scores are determined
– What passing means to a potential employer
Get your free copy by emailing
[email protected]
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Assessment―Contact Us/Important Dates
E-mail and telephone Hotlines!
– [email protected]
– 1-800-283-SHRM x3926 (EXAM)
To get your free copy of the Employers Guide to the Assurance of
Learning Assessment
– [email protected]
Encourage students to apply
– www.shrm.org/assessment
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QUESTIONS?
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