1. The CHES Examination: The Science Underlying its Development, Evaluation, and Revision
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John Sciacca and Gail Taylor Rice
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Medical education ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Item analysis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Medicine ,Health education ,Certification ,National commission ,Test specification ,business ,Credentialing ,Finalization - Abstract
The certified health education specialist examination measures not only possession of knowledge essential to the professional practice of health education, but also the application and interpretation of that knowledge. The examination is one phase in the process of certifying health educator specialists. The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inch Division Board for Certification of Health Education Specialists is responsible for the development and analysis of the health certification examination. In this article several procedures used in the process of developing a credentialing examination are described: (1) the role delineation and test specification, (2) item development, (3) examination finalization, (4) establishment of a passing point, and (5) item analysis and key finalization.
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- 2000
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