Starting this Fall 2021, NARA – National Association for Regulatory Administration in conjunction with the Research Institute for Key Indicators (RIKI) will be offering a new course, Licensing Measurement and Systems. The course is being developed by Dr Richard Fiene, Penn State Professor of Psychology (ret) & NARA Senior Research Consultant. Here are a couple of summary comments about the course:

This course will provide the learner with the major tenets of licensing measurement. The learner will discover as they go through the course that measurement in licensing is very different than other measurement systems found in many of the various social and human services. It has some very unique and idiosyncratic aspects which will provide us with increasing challenges in coming up with specific metrics in determining regulatory compliance.

The field of regulatory science is a very young field. Although regulations have been kicking around for well over 100 years, the science behind regulations is probably a quarter of this time. So there is not a great deal of empirical evidence to draw upon which is discouraging but it is very encouraging and exciting at the same time because so much needs to be accomplished in establishing regulatory science’s theory.

Check back periodically on this website (https://rikinstitute.com/blog/) or go to NARA’s website at: (https://www.naralicensing.org/key-indicator-facilitated-dialogues).