PES Announces Seven Recipients of 1999 Grant Awards Program
New York, NY, December
1999 - Professional Examination Service (PES) is pleased to announce the
recipients of the 1999 Grant Awards Program. Established in 1994, the
program makes available grant awards to support
credentialing stakeholders in educational or scientific activities that
contribute significantly to the development, use, evaluation, and enhancement
of professional credentials.
The program funds activities in three main categories:
educational meetings that bring together a variety of credentialing stakeholders;
non-commercial publications on credentialing policy intended for a broad spectrum
of credentialing stakeholders; and research studies that explore the meaning
and value of professional credentials to key stakeholder groups. Seven grants
were awarded for 1999:
-
American Dental Association
-- for an invitational conference that will
bring together dental clinical testing agencies to discuss best scoring
methods. The conference aims to promote the standardization of dental
clinical examinations in order to enhance the mobility of dental professionals.
-
American Nurses Credentialing
Center -- to support a second international
conference entitled "A Quality Agenda for the 21st Century,"
which will provide a forum for consumers, health care regulators, professional
nursing organizations, and health care organizations to discuss consumer
issues related to nursing credentialing.
-
Certification Board
Perioperative Nursing -- for a study investigating
the value of the CNOR and CRNFA credentials among a broad range of stakeholder
groups. The study will seek to provide an operational definition of the
value of the credentials and to develop a tool for collecting data from
stakeholders regarding their perceptions of the credentials' value.
-
Certifying Board of
Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc. -- to
support a survey of members for a study being conducted by the Nursing
Credentialing Research Coalition. The study will create a description
of the workforce of certified nurses and will document the value of certification.
-
Commission on Graduates
of Foreign Nursing Schools -- for a forum
that will bring together specialty nursing organizations to discuss the
impact of foreign-educated nurses with specialty credentials on U.S. workforce
planning, trade, and immigration policy.
-
Pharmacy Technician
Certification Board -- to support the development
of an ongoing program of research aimed at exploring the meaning and value
of the Certified Pharmacy Technician credential to major stakeholders,
including consumers, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, employers, educators,
and State Marketing Partners.
-
Physical Therapy Programs
of the Universities of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Miami, and North Dakota
-- for a study of the variables in physical
therapy educational programs that affect pass rates on the National Physical
Therapy Examination. A variety of variables will be studied including
class size, length of educational program, duration of clinical education,
and curriculum design.
Applications for the 1999 Grant Awards Program were
reviewed by: Pam Brinegar, M.A., Executive Director, Council on Licensure,
Enforcement and Regulation; and PES Board members John J. Connolly, Ed.D. and
John W. Work, Ph.D.
Professional Examination Service is a nonprofit testing
organization whose mission is to promote the understanding and use of sound
credentialing practices. PES achieves its mission by providing comprehensive
services and making contributions to credentialing stakeholders in the areas
of assessment practice, educational activities, scientific research, and policy
development.
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