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When social work faculty offer experience in answering multiple-choice questions, they help prepare their students to demonstrate competence on the licensing exams. Licensure is intended to protect the public that uses social work services by ensuring that practitioners are competent. The examinations serve as one part of the process of determining competence; social work regulatory bodies typically require a passing score on the exam along with graduation from an accredited social work program, supervised experience when needed, and a background check.  \nASWB trains and works with nearly 100 paid item writers, a diverse group of licensed social workers representing a range of races, ethnicities, locations, and practice settings. The Item Writing Guide for Educators is based on the training those item writers receive and is intended to accompany ASWB’s on-demand online question writing training for educators. Another important resource for educators is the Educator Guide to the ASWB Exams with group review practice questions. The educator guide is a free publication designed to help educators better understand the examination development process and prepare their students for success on the licensing exams. The guide includes access to a set of practice questions retired from ASWB exams.  \nLearn more about ASWB’s exam resources for educators.  \nUNDERSTANDING THE BIG PICTURE  \nEducators new to developing multiple-choice questions that follow ASWB standards may wonder how ASWB develops the exams.  \nWhat is ASWB?  \nASWB was incorporated in March 1979 by representatives of state social work licensing bodies. The laws, regulations, and experiences in the states varied considerably in 1979 and still do, but many situations are the same from one jurisdiction to another. The need for states to be able to draw on one another’s knowledge of and background in consumer protection helped bring them together to form what was first called the American Association of State Social Work Boards. The name was changed in 1999 to be more inclusive after Canadian provinces joined. Current membership consists of all 50 U. S. states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and all 10 Canadian provinces.  \nAbout the practice analysis  \nASWB completes an analysis of the practice of social work every five to seven years to ensure that its examinations reflect current social work practice and pertain to important social work functions. A committee of social work content experts specifies tasks that are performed by practitioners across settings. In the past, a large number of practitioners, chosen as a representative sample, rated each task according to the amount of time spent performing it, its importance, and whether it is required at entry to a particular category of practice or learned on the job. The next practice analysis, reenvisioned as the Social Work Census, will attempt to capture feedback from every social worker. After the survey responses are gathered, social work content experts will determine the underlying knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required to perform each task. These results will be analyzed and form the basis for the examination blueprint.  \nExamination blueprint  \nJust as an architect requires a blueprint to construct a sound building, the designers of a wellconstructed objective examination require a content outline that forms the basis of the examination. The exam blueprint is a list of the content areas of skills and knowledge to be tested. 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