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By James F. Gardner, PhD, President and CEO
Over the course of the last quarter century, I’ve reviewed the CQL standards and measures on multiple occasions But only recently did I actually look at them in a comparative manner, tracking the continuity and change through the various editions beginning in 1971 through 1990 – a crosswalk if you will. Mapping out the crosswalk got me rather deep in the weeds of hundreds and hundreds of standards and measures. But, the exercise also provided me with some new insights. The collective leadership that developed the early standards made some wonderful decisions that have continued to guide the CQL dialogue about quality. From the beginning, the CQL leadership has developed positions that guided expectation for the field rather than consensus standards that reflected contemporary practice.
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