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It revealed an opportunity to reduce both the length and the administration time while maintaining acceptable psychometric performance.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":123,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":125,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":127,"site_id":62},388202,1790296382,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":130},{"doc_id":127,"user_id":131,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":66,"doc_module":4,"category_id":19,"category_name":20,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":132,"file_id":133,"file_url":134,"file_type":135,"file_size":136,"view_count":4,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":137,"language":138,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":139,"faqs":140,"seo_title":141,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":128,"read_time":142},4398046744996,"WHITE PAPER  \nCertification Exam Validity and Time Optimization  \n Table of Contents  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3  \n\n| D ETAI L ED R EPO RT | 4 |\n| --- | --- |\n| AA PC CERT I F ICAT IO N EXAM CO NST R UCT AN D R EVI EW | 5 |\n| B ENCH MAR KI NG | 8 |\n| PSYCHO M ET R IC ANALYS IS | 10 |\n| AD D IT IO NAL B EN EF ITS | 1 1 |\n| S HO RT EN I NG AA PC CERT I F ICAT IO N EXAMS | 13 |\n| R IS KS | 13 |\n| B ETA EXA M R ES U LTS | 13 |\n| S U M MARY | 14 |\n| R ESO U RC ES | 15 |\n\nCONTRIBUTORS 15  \n 2   | Certification Exam Validity And Time Optimization  \n Executive Summary  \nAAPC certification exams are designed to provide certifications for our members to unequivocally demonstrate that the certified individual possesses the critical skills for the position the certification represents. To do this, AAPC must maintain rigorous exams with proven validity and reliability.  \nAAPC’s exam creation and review process ensures the validity of AAPC exams, so that consumers can have confidence that an AAPC certification represents that an individual possesses the critical skills and the expertise the intended position requires. A psychometric review indicates AAPC exams exhibit good to excellent levels of reliability. According to Alan Mead, Ph.D. (psychometrician),“All consumers ofAAPC exam scores can have confidence in the pass/fail classifications made using the AAPC exams.”  \nAs part ofAAPC’s exam enhancement and improvement initiative and review of the length of AAPC exams, a benchmark analysis was performed, which compared AAPC exams to medical certification exams and IT certification exams. The benchmark analysis revealed an opportunity to reduce the length of AAPC exams and their administration time. Psychometric analysis confirmed that shorter exams can also exhibit good reliability and content validity.  \nBy shortening AAPC exams, while maintaining the validity, we were able to ensure the same rigorous content as currently provided. Additional benefits of shortening AAPC exams include ensuring adequate time is given to the examinees, reducing obstacles for proctors, and opening an opportunity to provide additional types of questions to further reflect the critical abilities for the intended job.  \n3  \n Detailed Report  \nValidity and reliability are common measures indicating the quality of tests.  \nValidity: The degree to which accumulated evidence and theory support a specific interpretation of test scores for a given use of a test.  \nReliability/precision: The degree to which test scores for a group of test takers are consistent over repeated applications of a measurement procedure and hence are inferred to be dependable and consistent for an individual test taker; the degree to which scores are free of random errors of measurement for a given group. (AERA, APA, and NCME, 2014)  \nThe validity tells us whether the test scores are measuring the right competencies for a particular use of the test. Reliability tells us how consistently the test scores measure something. The goal for any test is high validity and  \nhigh reliability. If the exam has either poor validity or poor reliability, it is considered a poor test; both measures  \nmust be strong.  \nFirst, even notable differences in reliability (for a full-length and shortened exam) have small effects on validity (which indexes the utility of the exam scores for a purpose). And second, exams with adequately reliable scores tend to have validity coefficients that are degraded only slightly due to measurement error. Therefore, it seems inappropriate to become overly fixated on meeting a specific threshold for reliability or on the apparent differences for different scenarios. It is more important that all exam scores demonstrate adequate reliability (e.g., above 0.70), because as exam score reliability falls below about 0.70, the criterion-related validity coefficient of the short form will degrade more (and more rapidly as the reliability declines).  \nHaving scores with better reliability is gene","cbCaiu56ZMEFTaZS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu56ZMEFTaZS","pdf",378886,15,"English","# Executive Summary\n# Detailed Report\n## Validity and Reliability\n## AAPC Certification Exam Construct and Review\n## Benchmarking\n## Psychometric Analysis\n## Additional Benefits of Shortening AAPC Exams\n## Shortening AAPC Certification Exams\n## Risks\n## Beta Exam Results\n## Summary\n## Resources","[{\"question\":\"What do validity and reliability mean for certification exams?\",\"answer\":\"Validity refers to how accumulated evidence and theory support the interpretation of test scores for a specific use. 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