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 […]
What does it take to be a Super Proctor?
PAEA will be restricting access to proctored exams on the following days, so please plan your exam schedule in advance: Wednesday, January 1: New Year’s Day Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Monday, February 17: Presidents Day Monday, May 25: Memorial Day Friday, July 3: Independence Day Monday, September 7: Labor Day Monday, October 12: Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day Wednesday, November 11: Veterans Day Thursday, […]
PAEA’s newest assessment tool, the End of Curriculum™ exam, is now available.
PAEA will be restricting access to proctored exams on the following days: Tuesday, December 24 Wednesday, December 25 Thursday, December 26 Wednesday, January 1 You may still schedule unproctored PACKRAT® exams for these days — as well as purchase and schedule exams — but customer support services will not be available to assist with any issues that may […]
Prices for PACKRAT® and End of Rotation™ exams will increase on January 1. However, we will honor current 2019 pricing for all orders placed by January 2 at 11:59 p.m. ET. All orders received on or after January 3, 2020, will receive the new price. Please refer to our website for pricing details. As always, we are committed to providing superior assessment products to our programs, and we appreciate your continued support. […]