Content Validity Studies of Licensing Examinations

Smith, I. Leon; Hambleton, Ronald K.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-3992.1990.tb00385.x

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“…Yet, we need to conduct a more comprehensive practice analysis to fully capture that domain, including, for example, patient safety problems and medical errors in the community, home, and long-term care. Depending on the candidates to assess and the practice analysis procedures used for criterionreferenced licensing examinations, 46,47 we must decide what omissions and commissions occur frequently enough in practice and with sufficient health consequences to be considered essential competencies for a national exam intended for supervised or unsupervised practice. We then can incorporate such analyses and decisions into a broader, more comprehensive practice model for blueprinting that can guide the content selection for the entire exam.…”

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Practice Indicators of Suboptimal Care and Avoidable Adverse Events

Bordage

Meguerditchian²,

Tamblyn³

2013

Academic Medicine

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Practice Indicators of Suboptimal Care and Avoidable Adverse Events

Bordage

Meguerditchian²,

Tamblyn³

2013

Academic Medicine

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“…The most common interpretation of these standards in the research was expressed by Smith and Hambleton (1990):…”

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Job Analysis for Lkensure and Certfication Exams: Science or Politics?

Nelson¹

1994

Educational Measurement

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“…3 An integral component of the test development process in licensing and certification is to ensure the relatedness of examination content to job/performance tasks. 4,5 To accomplish this, test developers routinely conduct practice analyses to link the content in a credentialing test to performance tasks in the occupational field.…”

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Pharmacists’ Expectations for Entry-level Practitioner Competency

Boyle¹,

Myford²

2013

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Objective. To determine if defined subgroups of pharmacists' have variability in their expectations for competency of entry-level practitioners. Methods. Rating scale data collected from the 2009 National Pharmacy Practice Survey were analyzed to determine to what extent pharmacists' degree, practice setting, and experience as a preceptor were associated with the ratings they assigned to 43 competency statements for entry-level practitioners. The competency statements determine the content on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX).Results. Pharmacists with a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree rated the co mpetency statements higher in terms of criticality to entry-level practice than did those with a bachelor of science (BS) degree ( p, 0.05). Pharmacists working in inpatient settings gave slightly higher ratings to the competency statements than did pharmacists working in outpatient settings, pharmacists without direct patient care responsibilities, and those in academia. However, there were no significant differences among practitioner subgroups' criticality ratings with regard to practice setting. Preceptor pharmacists' criticality ratings of the competency statements were not significantly different from those of nonpreceptor practitioners. Conclusion. Pharmacists exhibited a fair amount of agreement in their expectations for the competence of entry-level practitioners independent of their practice sites and professional roles. As the pharmacy profession embraces patient-centered clinical practice, evaluating practicing pharmacists' expectations for entry-level practitioners will provide useful information to the practitioners and academicians involved in training future pharmacists. Stakeholders in pharmacy education and regulation have vested interests in the alignment of the education of future practitioners with the needs of the profession.

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Content Validity Studies of Licensing Examinations

Abstract: Can measurement specialists’current ideas about content validation be implemented with licensure examinations? Does pressure of litigation facilitate or inhibit conducting validity studies?

Cited by 39 publications

References 5 publications

Practice Indicators of Suboptimal Care and Avoidable Adverse Events

Practice Indicators of Suboptimal Care and Avoidable Adverse Events

Job Analysis for Lkensure and Certfication Exams: Science or Politics?

Pharmacists’ Expectations for Entry-level Practitioner Competency

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