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Competency-based testing programs necessarily call for substantial stakeholder input throughout the development process. A successful program requires a decision-making infrastructure consisting of key individuals, properly constituted committees and working groups. This allows for defensible decision-making on policies and issues such as:
- Candidate eligibility (e.g., minimum education and experience)
- Assessment instrument determination
- Criteria for content experts
- Invigilator parameters
- Method of delivery
- Locations and security for administration
- Frequency of writings
- Disability accommodations
- Test security
- Criteria for markers
- Candidate results reporting
- Cheating analysis requirements
- Appeals processes and
- Candidate feedback.
Principal committees and working groups will include:
- Advisory Committee
- Test Committee including standard (i.e., passmark) setting
- Competency Development Committee
- Blueprint Development Committee
- Item (test question) Writing Groups
- Marking Groups
- Item Revision Groups and
- Translation Review Committee.
The committees and working groups, consisting of content experts, must anticipate the ultimate scope of the program so as to attain validity, value and broad acceptance. A program must have face validity so that it does not attract legal challenges such as human rights complaints and appeals. Furthermore, when there are legal challenges, they can only be properly defended based on the comprehensiveness of the development. |
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