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HORIZONS CREDENTIALING FOR THE RESPIRATORY CARE PROFESSION
Reminder of Upcoming Examination Changes 3
METHODS AND RESULTS FROM THE JOB ANALYSIS OF PULMONARY FUNCTION TECHNOLOGISTS Robert C. Shaw, Jr., PhD, Asst. Executive Director and Psychometrician for NBRC Programs
INTRODUCTION 23rd Annual State Licensure Liaison Group Meeting Held in Kansas City 4 30, Ja 1–Sept pt Jan 2013 Jan 1–Se 30, 2012
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A job analysis study of pulmonary function technologists was conducted in 2013. Compared to studies of the past, this study was affected by the decision that the board of trustees had made about assessing candidates for the CPFT and RPFT credentials over the same body of content. In the past, a pair of studies had been done to support the content of separate examinations that were developed for each credential. Going forward, achieving the CPFT or RPFT credential will be respectively differentiated by earning a score high enough to equal a low cut score or a high cut score. The plan is to begin the new examination on June 17, 2015.
METHODS A task inventory approach was applied for this study. A list of 275 task statements was developed by an 8-person advisory committee. Each task described the behavior of a technologist. The advisory committee organized the task list around three major domains each of which was divided into three minor
domains, which yielded a total of nine content domains. Respondents were asked to assess the importance of each task that was performed within their facilities by a general pulmonary function technologist without differentiating whether the technologist had the responsibilities of an entry level or an advanced level person. This was a new method compared to past studies when task ratings were separately collected in the context of entry level and advanced level personnel. A scale gave each respondent four points to indicate how important he or she perceived each task to be plus a zero point to indicate when a task was not among the responsibilities of a technologist. Respondents were identified by soliciting the entire population (n=6,561) of credentialed pulmonary function technologists from the NBRC database who had an email address. The American Association for Respiratory Care membership organization supported the study by blasting emails that contained survey access information to the populations of its members who belonged to
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