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The Commission on Credentialing has had to make some changes to its proposed rollout of the full new credentialing system because of the Covid-19 emergency. While the commission is anxious to have the new system fully operational, it is very aware that the health and safety of our members and candidates are of primary importance. Therefore: • While all of the in-person commission meetings that were scheduled for this spring have been canceled, the commission will be meeting very frequently on Adobe Connect so that finalizing the rest of the step two RP testing materials can be accomplished by this fall. • The commission is very grateful to the NAP Educational Foundation for a grant to support the video recording of the step three assessments. The video was scheduled to be ready this June, but will now be delayed until the fall. The final creation of the scripts will continue as planned, but rehearsals for the actors, and actual video recording are dependent on circumstances. The expectation is that it will be possible by this fall. • The Beta testing of the step one objective tests is continuing, and analysis of the data obtained will be used to refine these quizzes 34
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during the online commission meetings. • The training of non-commission step two and three evaluators has been delayed until fall since it will require more extensive training of evaluators than can reasonably be accomplished without in-person meetings. Until those evaluators are fully trained, current and former commissioners will conduct these evaluations themselves. • The commission will continue to do inter-rater reliability testing on the step two assessments. That is, an initial number of step two assignments and step three simulations will be evaluated separately by all commissioners, and their assessments will be compared independently. These assignments and their rubrics will continue to be revised and perfected based on these analyses in an effort to minimize variation in scoring among different evaluators. • Systems are in place to continue to evaluate the current candidates or any new candidates after revisions based on inter-rater reliability analyses. The commission hopes that some of our current candidates will be able to use their mandated home time to prepare for these assessments.
