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New, restructured National Board examinations will be implemented during 2009-10.
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:: July 29, 2008
Scores have been posted online for the June 2008 ACMO Examination.
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::July 24, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dr. Linda Casser has accepted the position of Dean of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University.
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::July 21, 2008
Verification Letters for the August 2008 Part I (BS), Part III (PAM & CSE), and Law examinations have been posted online.
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::July 21, 2008
Instructions to Candidates for the August 2008 Part I (BS), Part III (PAM & CSE), and Law examinations have been posted online..
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::July 16, 2008
Online registration is now available for the December 2008 Part I (BS) and Part II (CS) examinations.
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::July 3, 2008
Information for the new 2009 Part I (Applied Basic Science) has been posted online.
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::July 3, 2008
The new 2009 Examination Restructure Content Matrix has been posted online.
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::June 13, 2008
Injection Skills continues to be Pilot-Tested on the August 2008 Clinical Skills Examination.
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::March 4, 2008
Important Change to the Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) Equipment that Candidates Must Supply
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Parts I, II, and TMOD are administered in conventional multiple-choice format. For these examinations, scores are determined by summing the number of correct responses. Each item receives one point if correct, zero if incorrect. Therefore, candidates should answer each test item, marking on the answer sheet the letter for what they regard as the correct response. Only one response should be marked for each item. Items that contain two or more marked responses or all blank responses (i.e., an omitted item) are scored as incorrect responses. The PAM section of the Part III exam is a multiple choice exam but has a different scoring methodology. Click here for a description of this exam and its scoring methodology.
The Clinical Skills section of Part III is a performance test. Therefore, candidates do not answer any questions. Instead, the examiners evaluate each candidate on more than 300 performance items. Each evaluation item is worth 1-10 points based on the item criticality scale shown below. However, regardless of the number of points, all items are graded on an absolute basis. Therefore, candidates either receive full credit or no credit. Thus, if a performance item is worth five points, candidates receive five points if it is performed correctly, or zero points if performed incorrectly or not at all.
Rating Scale for Item Criticality - Clinical Skills Section
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| 10 Essential |
essential for satisfactory care;
poor performance would result in deficient patient care |
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| 7 Very Important |
very likely to affect the quality of patient care;
only extraordinary measures could compensate for poor performance |
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| 4 Important |
likely to, but would not necessarily affect, the quality of patient care |
| 3 |
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| 1 Desirable |
desirable activity, but would not necessarily affect the quality of patient care if done incorrectly, or not at all |
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For Part III, the section weights for scoring are Clinical Skills 60% and PAM 40%. For detailed information determining the Part III pass-fail cutoff score, click here.
Test items that are found upon post-exam review to be ambiguous or to have more than one correct response or no correct response are deleted from scoring by consensus of the corresponding examination council. Thus, the number of items scored in an examination may be fewer than the number of items administered.
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