<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><font size="5" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">ASPPB Call for Volunteers for the
EPPP (Part 1-Knowledge): <font color="#0070c0">MC Item
Writers</font></span></font></b><b><font size="5" color="#0070c0" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"></span></font></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The Association
of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB),<b> is seeking
volunteers with expertise and experience in writing multiple-choice (MC) test items/questions</b>
for the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology Part 1 – Knowledge
(EPPP-1).</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are
the people who write the MC items that are on the EPPP-1. </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">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.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are professionals
working in one or more of the knowledge domains assessed by the EPPP-1: 1. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">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.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">This is a call for
item-writer volunteers for all EPPP1 Domains</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">, except for Domain 3. </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">What Item Writers Do:</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> Item writers meet once each year 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, </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">these fledgling items are reviewed,
revised, tweaked, etc. in a group session with the item-writer colleagues from
the same knowledge domain. (For the item writing workshop, the ASPPB covers
travel and accommodation costs.)</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">If you are interested in
becoming an EPPP1 item writer, please send a brief note and a <b>copy of your current CV</b> to </span></font><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><u><font size="3" color="#0563c1" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:asppb.eppp1@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">asppb.eppp1@gmail.com</a></span></font></u></span><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">. Your note will come to me, Peter Graf, Chair of the EPPP1 Item
Writing Committee (IDC). In your note, please briefly summarize your expertise
and experience vis a vis one of the EPPP1 Domains. </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are vetted by
me as the Chair of the IDC, in collaboration with the chair of the knowledge
domain </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">(each
domain has between 3 and 7 writers, plus a chair) and with Hao </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Song, the ASPPB </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Associate Executive Officer of Examination
Services.</span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Please forward this message
to any individuals who you think may be interested in volunteering to write
items for the EPPP-1.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Thank you for reading this
note.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="5" color="black" face="Bradley Hand ITC"><span style="font-size:16pt">Peter Graf</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Chair EPPP1 IDC 
</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><u><font size="3" color="#0563c1" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:pgraf@psych.ubc.ca" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">pgraf@psych.ubc.ca</a></span></font></u></span><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> & <a href="mailto:asppb.eppp1@gmail.com">asppb.eppp1@gmail.com</a></span></font></p></div>