Test Scoring
Certification examinations
- Psychometric staff conduct preliminary scoring to ensure that all data were transmitted accurately.
- Psychometric staff review the scoring results to verify that each question on the examination is psychometrically acceptable.
- Test development staff review all examinee comments to identify problematic items.
- Based on these analyses, items that do not meet certain statistical criteria and/or have generated notable examinee comments are referred to the committee chairs for review.
- Committee chairs review problematic items and come to an agreement on how to move forward.
- Items that are deemed to be flawed by the committee chairs are removed from scoring, and the exam is rescored.
- This phase typically takes 4-6 weeks, depending on the number of exam items and the number of exams being scored at the same time.
Article-Based Continuing Certification (ABCC) examinations
- ABPN staff review statistics and all diplomate feedback to track item performance and determine if any questions may have flaws.
- If a question is deemed to have possible flaws, the committee chairs will review the item and determine if the question should be taken offline for editing.
- If the item is deemed flawed, ABPN staff rescore the item, meaning the item will not count toward the diplomate’s score on the exam.
ABPN
