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Examination selection process - Examination development should adhere to
professionally accepted standards to ensure that the items within the examination are psychometrically sound, job related, and legally defensible.
Testing vendors use psychometrician's to manage
this process and must adhere to the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" and the "Principals for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures".
Psychometrician's are necessary to develop and validate assessment tools (exams) that measure professional competence in job related duties for certification / licensure. They do the following
- Conduct job analysis/role delineation studies.
- Develop exams with subject matter experts.
- Set standards, and pass points, for exams as well as other related services.
All of the exams recognized by CCIDC for certification are in compliance with the
Department of Consumer Affairs Examination Validation Policy.
CCIDC follows the policy of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) as directed by Section 139 of the Business and Professions
Code. Section 139 of the B& P Code directs the DCA to prepare a guideline policy regarding examinations used in California to conform to specific professionaly accepted technical and
professional standards.
Excerpt from the DCA policy states: "Every board, program bureau, and
division under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Consumer Affairs should ensure that passing standards for its examination(s) are established, based upon minimum competency criteria at an
entry level to the profession." Section 5800 of the Business and Professions Code as it relates to Certified Interior Designers directs the CCIDC Board to comply with this policy.
Entry Level within the DCA policy is described as "The perspective that the content of the test should be based on the level of competency required of a practitioner who has been licensed for
less than 5 years."
Minimum Competence is described as "The level of knowledge, skills and abilities required of practitioners that when performed at this level would not cause
harm to the public health, safety, or welfare."
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