Program Overview
Administrative Investigations & Fact-Finding Certificate Program is a structured 16-hour ADR Academy certificate program focused on practical, defensible professional performance. The program combines guided instruction, realistic scenarios, applied tools, knowledge checks, and a final capstone.
Who Should Attend
Public- and private-sector oversight professionals, investigators, inspectors, auditors, compliance personnel, counsel, managers, and related program staff.
Program Details
- Total program time: 16 hours
- Delivery: Interactive online and instructor-supported learning; scheduled live virtual or private cohort delivery may also be offered
- Instructor: ADR Academy / Guno O. Ritfeld and approved faculty, as assigned
- Passing standard: 80 percent plus completion of all required activities
- Certificate: ADR Academy certificate issued after Registrar verification
- Individual tuition: $1,195
Learning Outcomes
- Apply the core standards, terminology, and professional responsibilities associated with this program.
- Use structured tools to plan, document, analyze, and communicate work.
- Recognize risks, limitations, referral points, and quality-control requirements.
- Demonstrate learning through scenarios, work products, assessments, and a capstone.
Eight-Module Curriculum
- Allegation framing, jurisdiction, and scope
- Investigation planning and case strategy
- Records requests and evidence preservation
- Interview sequencing and question design
- Credibility, corroboration, and conflicting accounts
- Case-file organization and timelines
- Findings, recommendations, and referrals
- Defensible report-writing capstone
Completion Requirements
- Complete all eight modules and required learning activities.
- Pass all required knowledge checks and the final assessment with at least 80 percent.
- Submit the applied capstone or work product identified for the course.
- Complete the course evaluation and satisfy identity and participation requirements.
Enrollment and Access
Individual enrollment is completed through the connected ADR Academy product and checkout page. Course access and any scheduled instructor sessions are provided after payment and enrollment confirmation. Agency and private-group delivery is available through the Federal Workforce Consultation request.
Important Credential Notice
ADR Academy awards training certificates of completion. This course does not confer appointment, licensure, law-enforcement authority, or an agency, CIGIE, FLETC, AIG, SHRM, or other third-party credential unless expressly identified in writing.
ADR Academy Support
Contact info@adraceu.com or (703) 584-5504 for enrollment, access, or instructional support.
2026 Curriculum and Completion Plan
This structured 16-hour certificate program contains six sequenced learning units, applied work products, knowledge checks and a capstone portfolio.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply governing authorities, professional standards and ethical safeguards.
- Plan and document defensible oversight, investigative, audit or compliance work.
- Evaluate evidence, risk, credibility, fairness and corrective action.
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to decision-makers.
Curriculum
- Module 1: Intake, Jurisdiction and Allegation Framing — intake decisions, conflicts, jurisdiction and precise allegation framing.
- Module 2: Investigation Planning and Procedural Fairness — impartial investigation plans, notice, milestones and procedural controls.
- Module 3: Interview Strategy and Credibility Assessment — ethical interviewing, question sequencing, corroboration and credibility factors.
- Module 4: Documentary, Digital and Physical Evidence — collection, preservation, chain of custody and evidence matrices.
- Module 5: Findings and Investigative Report Writing — standards of proof, evidence weighing, findings and quality-assured reports.
- Module 6: Capstone Administrative Investigation — integration of intake, planning, evidence, credibility and reporting.
Learning Resources
Recommended Cengage companion: Criminal Investigation, 12th Edition with MindTap, when assigned through the ADRA LTI selector.
Completion Requirements
Complete all six units in order, retain the five applied work products, finish the capstone activity and submit the course from the course-status screen. Estimated total learning time: 16 hours.
