ABAASA JOINT COUNCIL ON INTRAINING EXAMINATIONS

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ABA/ASA JOINT COUNCIL ON IN-TRAINING EXAMINATIONS

• 2001 REPORT TO SAAC/AAPD
• Raymond C. Roy, PhD, MD
• Joint Council Chair

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JOINT COUNCIL MEMBERS

• ABA
• David Chestnut
• Douglas Coursin
• Glenn Gravlee
• Patricia Kapur
• Mark Rockoff
• Raymond Roy
• Kenneth Tuman

• ASA
• Arnold Berry
• John Cooper
• Jeffrey Gross
• Philip Lebowitz
• Charles Otto
• Patricia Petrozza
• Mark Rosen

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IN-TRAINING EXAMINATION EDITORS

• Steven Allen, Audree Bendo, James DiNardo, Carter
  Dodge, Sylvia Dolinski, John Ebert, John Emhardt,
  Robert Gaiser, Eric Kitain, Bruce Kleinman,
  Elliott Krane, Larry Krenis, Larry Kushins,
  Cynthia Lien, Vinod Malhotra, Donald Martin,
  Roger Mecca, John Moyers, Julia Pollock, Lindo Jo
  Rice, Robert Sladen, Richard Stypula, Richard
  Teplick, Helen Westman, Thomas Wolfe

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IN-TRAINING EXAMINATION 4 EXAMS IN 1

• In-Training
• Requalifying
• ABA Written
• Subset of 300 questions from ITE
• Recertification
• A-types from ITE form question pool

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ITE EXAMINEE COUNTS
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2001 IN-TRAINING EXAMINATON

• 251 (-14) new ?s
• 100 (-1) link ?s - from old exams
• need to establish scaled score
• scaled score only reported
• corrects for fluctuations in test difficulty
• no correct reported

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2001 IN-TRAINING EXAMINATION NUMBER OF QUESTIONS
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2001 IN-TRAINING EXAMINATION AVERAGE SCALED SCORES
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CHEATING

• DEFINITION
• 2 PROCTORS CONFIRM
• ANALYSIS OF WRONG ANSWERS
• EXAM OF COPIER vs EXAM COPIED
• CONSEQUENCE IF () ANALYSIS
• EXAM OF COPIER NOT GRADED
• LETTER TO COPIER
• LETTER TO PROGRAM DIRECTOR

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EXAMINEE BEHAVIOR

• EXAMINATION WILL NOT BE GRADED IF CANDIDATE IS
• DISRUPTIVE TO EXAM
• REFUSES TO STOP
• UNPROFESSIONAL (RUDE) TO PROCTORS
• BRINGS CELL PHONES, PALM PILOTS

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IN-TRAINING EXAMINATIONCURRENT QUESTION PATH

• QUESTION WRITERS
• current oral examiners
• those on oral examiner wait list
• close link between oral written
• QUESTION EDITORS
• IN-TRAINING COUNCIL
• COUNCIL CHAIR

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IN-TRAINING EXAMINATIONNEW QUESTION PATH

• QUESTION WRITERS (30-40)
• core group
• (current oral examiners)
• abolish link between oral written
• QUESTION EDITOR (15-25)
• IN-TRAINING COUNCIL (14)
• CHAIR (ABA) VICE CHAIR (ASA)