Continious (Year Round) testing

[palvarez83]

It appears that the CA board will in the future start offering Seismic and Surveying Computer Based Testing year round. That means no more waiting for the test cycle of April or October. I responded to one of their inquires as a volunteer. I'm not sure if I really want to take seismic again! Even if it is just for fun....

Read the following email:

Good afternoon,

Hope everyone is well. The reason for this email is that we are looking for a minimum of 50 licensees for Seismic Principles and 50 licensees for Engineering Surveying who recently took the Civil exam within the last 4 years and have not participated in any exam development with our Board. The 50+ people take part of an exam at one of Prometric site locations located in California on the computer, choosing a date to attend between June 20-27, 2014. You will be able to choose which exam you would like to take either Seismic Principles or the Engineering Surveying exams.

The reason for this is we will be testing all new questions to see how they perform. While taking the exam on the computer there will be a button on each question for comments, you will have the opportunity to make any comments/suggestions to each question. You will be given 4 hours to take either the Seismic Principles or Engineering Surveying exam, the reason for a longer time is so that you are able to review each question, answer it and make comments and/or suggestions.

Our goal is to have an exam that will be continuous testing without having any more exam cycles. In order to reach our goal we need to test the new questions to see how they perform before we place them on the actual test.

I have attached an application and a questionnaire if you are interested. You will also be paid $32.00 an hour for your time and be paid mileage from home to the exam site. If you could please fill out both forms and e-mail it back to us with your resume attached.

We would like to thank you for your time and we hope to hear from many of you!

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[SIZE=10pt]Exam Development Analyst[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]2535 Capitol Oaks Drive, Ste 300[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Sacramento, CA 95833[/SIZE]

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[ajm]

That would be great!

Hopefully I won't have to take advantage of the increased frequency, though.

 

[JMT]

I got that same email, that was an interesting bit of information in it.

 

[palvarez83]

Anyone else considering doing this for old times sake? :suicide1:

 

[CAPLS]

I think you guys should consider helping out. A few things to consider on how this differs from the real exam:

1. The comments that you provide are vital and important for the Board to continue to provide appropriate exam content.

2. Your license will not be "taken away" if you do not pass The primary goal is to critique way the questions are written

3. There are essentially two sets of experts working on exam development, the licensees or "industry experts" and the psychometric experts that help with structuring the questions appropriately. Both sets of experts are vital to the success of the development.

After you help with the field test consider how much you would have to help write new questions.

Thanks

 

[Lomarandil]

Too bad it's for residents only... I'm a sucker for this sort of thing.