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|
| When?
| Event
| Purpose
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| Mar.
| Exam Cut
| Delete items for exposure, stats, dated content
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| May
| Item Draft
| Add items: balance content, improve reliability, match forms, change difficulty
|
| Sept.
| Final Form Review
| Confirm item accuracy
|
| Oct.
| Quality Assurance
| Check grammar, spelling, controls, scoring, reporting
|
| Dec.
| Production Verification
| Delivery Vendor Q.A.
|
| Jan 1
| Revised Form Rollout
| New exam forms activated
|
| Jan
| Archive retired form
| Document stats
|
| Jan 15
| New Form Verification
| Statistical verification of key
| Reports
| Weekly
| Testing Meeting Minutes
| Compliance evidence for ANSI
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| Quarterly
| Quarterly Mgmt Report (QMR)
| Compliance evidence for ANSI
|
| July
| NCCA
| NOCA’s annual data review
|
| Aug.
| ANSI ISO 17024
| Annual ANSI surveillance
| Exam Update Events (Every 3-5 Years)
| Job Task Analysis Survey (JTA)
| Link exam skills with practice
|
| Item Development Workshop (IDW)
| Develop items for skills defined in the JTA
|
Statistics Required Annual Events
| When?
| Title
| Statistics
|
| Mar.
| Exam Cut
| Pass %, P-Value, Point-Biserial; Difficulty, Discriminating power, guessing parameter
|
| May
| Item Draft
| Same as Exam Cut
|
| Sept.
| Final Form Review
| Cutpoint stats
|
| Oct.
| Quality Assurance
|
|
| Dec.
| Production Verification
|
|
| Jan 1
| Revised Form Rollout
| New exam forms activated
|
| Jan
| Archive retired form
| Item, exam stats;
|
| Jan 15
| New Form Verification
| Item, Distractor P-Bis;
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