To ensure successful administration, PAEA is providing a series of videos on how to successfully administer an End of Rotation exam and to help you guide remote proctors and students effectively. We want to prepare faculty with information to ensure that proctors and students have a seamless exam. This video provides information on what to […]
Earlier this year, PAEA temporarily waived proctoring policies for End of Rotation exams due to COVID-19. We are now extending this decision for at least another six months to accommodate programs that continue to require increased flexibility in exam administration due to the pandemic. Given this decision, we will not publish Version 8 of the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused meaningful changes to our lives and to PA programs, faculty, and students. We have created several resources to help member programs prepare for and administer End of Rotation TM exams during this unprecedented time. The updates expand the scope of proctor resources available and should prove useful to all programs. […]
PAEA is happy to announce a new End of Curriculum™ Exam Faculty Guide. This document covers many questions faculty may have about the End of Curriculum exam, including, but not limited to, the content blueprint, exam creation, scoring and interpretation, and even how to align the exam with your current programmatic goals and objectives. Additionally, […]
All indications suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic will be brought under control region by region. Therefore, as individual programs are able to safely bring students back to campus, PAEA will make real-time, case-by-case decisions to ensure that those programs can access the PAEA End of Curriculum™ exam. PAEA has modified its Assessment Exam Policies for […]
If you are a PA who is experiencing hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may be interested in this professional development and CME opportunity to develop your skills as an item writer by writing test questions for PAEA’s End of Curriculum™ exam. Released in January 2020, the End of Curriculum exam is an objective, standardized […]
PAEA is committed to helping programs maintain the security, validity, and integrity of exams. This requires PAEA, programs, and their students to adhere to specific codes of conduct. There are proactive strategies programs can adopt while administering an exam to a student at home to help maintain communication and ensure that expectations are clear. While […]
The PAEA Assessment Team is asking programs to schedule exams on weekdays — not weekends. With more programs holding exams online and needing support, this will help ensure that programs have the support they need during testing. We strongly recommend programs review their current exam schedule and move weekend exams to a weekday. Instructions to […]
Exam Development Board members came together from far away for the sixth annual Exam Development Summit.
UPDATED March 25, 2020 In this unprecedented time, we are sensitive to the many demands on PA programs. We appreciate the hard work of those programs that have been able to comply with PAEA’s proctoring policies, but we realize that it is increasingly difficult in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. Below we identify important policy […]