[CogSci] ASPPB Seeks Item Writer Volunteers for the EPPP1

[Peter X Graf]

The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), an
organization comprised of all the psychology licensing boards in the United
States and Canada,* is seeking volunteers with expertise and experience in
writing multiple-choice (MC) test items/questions* for the Examination for
Professional Practice in Psychology Part 1 – Knowledge (EPPP-1).

Item writers are the people who write the MC items that are on the EPPP-1.

Writers are selected for their expertise and experience, to represent
geographic, work, demographic, cultural, and professional diversities.
Writers are professors, researchers, psychologists in practice, etc. Early
career psychologists are encouraged to apply because they represent the
largest portion of those for whom the EPPP-1 is intended.

Item writers are professionals working in one or more of the knowledge
domains that are assessed by the EPPP-1. The domains are: 1. Biological
Bases of Behavior; 2 Cognitve-Affective Bases of Behavior; 3. Social and
Cultural Bases of Behavior; 4. Growth and Lifespan Development; 5.
Assessment and Diagnosis; 6. Treatment, Intervention, and Prevention and
Supervision; 7. Research Methods and Statistics; 8.
Ethical/Legal/Professional Issues

*This call is for volunteers with expertise and experience in Domain 2* --
these specific content areas:

·         Major research‐based theories and models of intelligence and
their application;

·         Major research-based theories, models, and principles of learning
and their application;

·         Major research‐based theories and models of memory and their
application;

·         Major research‐based theories and models of motivation and their
application;

·         Major research-based theories and models of emotion and their
application;

·         Elements of cognition, including sensation and perception,
attention, language, information processing, visual-spatial processing,
executive functioning;

·         Relations among cognitions/beliefs, behavior, affect,
temperament, and mood;

·         Influence of psychosocial factors on cognitions/beliefs and
behaviors

*What Item Writers DO:* Item writers meet once each year -- usually in the
Spring, at the ASPPB office in Tyrone GA -- for a 2-day item writing
workshop. Each writer drafts 10-15 new items prior to the workshop, and at
the workshop, these items are reviewed and revised -- tweaked in a group
session with item-writer colleagues from the same knowledge domain. For the
item writing workshop, the ASPPB covers travel and accommodation costs.

If you are interested in becoming an EPPP1 item writer for Domain 2, please
send a brief note and a *copy of your current CV* to *asppb.eppp1 at gmail.com
<asppb.eppp1 at gmail.com>*. Your note will come to me, Peter Graf, Chair of
the EPPP1 Item Writing Committee (IDC).

Item writers are vetted by me as the Chair of the IDC, in collaboration
with the chair of the knowledge domain (each domain has between 3 and 7
writers, plus a chair) and with Hao Song, the ASPPB Associate Executive
Officer of Examination Services.

Please forward this message to any individuals who you think may be
interested in volunteering to write items for the EPPP-1.

Thank you for reading this note.

Peter Graf

Chair EPPP1 IDC

pgraf at psych.ubc.ca & asppb.eppp1 at gmail.com
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