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Attached below is the 4th edition of the Regulatory Compliance Monitoring Systems eTextBook for the National Association for Regulatory Administration’s Licensing Curriculum course on licensing measurement and monitoring systems. The fourth edition contains several research updates and examples for the licensing field. The eTextBook is a companion document for the NARA course and should be used together. However, if the reader just wants to learn about the background research to human services regulatory compliance and monitoring systems, reading the text will be a very helpful introduction.

This post presents a research abstract (attached below as a word document) which will outline the statistical theory behind the Regulatory Compliance Scale. It shows how moving to an ordinal model increases the sensitivity of regulatory compliance data distributions. Several examples drawn from other data sets are provided. This abstract should be helpful for licensing researchers and regulatory scientists as they test out the Regulatory Compliance Scale within various jurisdictions.