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A Practical Guide to Practice Analysis for Credentialing Examinations
Author(s) -
Raymond Mark R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00097.x
Subject(s) - credentialing , cornerstone , test (biology) , structuring , computer science , medical education , reading (process) , psychology , management science , engineering ethics , medicine , political science , engineering , art , paleontology , law , visual arts , biology
Practice analysis (i.e., job analysis) serves as the cornerstone for the development of credentialing examinations and is generally used as the primary source of evidence when validating scores on such exams. Numerous methodological questions arise when planning and conducting a practice analysis, but there is little consensus in the measurement community regarding the answers to these questions. This article offers recommendations concerning the following issues: selecting a method of practice analysis; developing rating scales to describe practice; determining the content of test plans; using multivariate procedures for structuring test plans; and determining topic weights for test plans. The article closes by suggesting several references for further reading.