Definition of a National Examinations

Definiton of a National Examination

(1) A national examination is an examination developed by or for a national or multi-state professional association, board, council, or society (hereinafter referred to as organization) and administered for the purpose of assessing entry level skills necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public from incompetent practice and meets the following standards:

(a) The purpose of the examination shall be to establish entry level standards of practice that shall be common to all practitioners;

(b) The practice of the profession at the national level must be defined through an occupational survey with a representative sample of all practitioners and professional practices; and

(c) The examination for licensure must assess the scope of practice and the entry skills defined by the national occupational survey.

(2) The organization must be generally recognized by practitioners across the nation in the form of representatives from the State Boards or shall have membership representing a substantial number of the nation’s or states’ practitioners who have been licensed through the national examination.

(3) The organization shall be the responsible body for overseeing the development and scoring of the national examination.

(4) The organization shall provide security guidelines for the development and grading of the national examination and shall oversee the enforcement of these guidelines.

(5) National Examinations shall be graded solely and exclusively by the national examination provider or its designee. National examinations shall include those developed by or for national boards, councils, associations or societies