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Board debates exam fairness, alternative pathways and oversight of coaches; adds protection for marginalized communities to priorities
Summary
Stakeholder criticism that national licensing exams contain cultural and linguistic bias surfaced at the Board of Behavioral Sciences strategic session, prompting a commitment to workshop objectives and place bias assessment and alternative pathway review into the action plan. Board members also raised concerns about unregulated 'coaches' and electronic health-record privacy for vulnerable clients, and proposed a new goal to protect marginalized groups.
During the Feb. 19 strategic planning session, external stakeholder input included repeated concerns that examination content and test-development processes can disadvantage some candidates and underrepresent cultural perspectives. Board members and staff discussed how to reflect that concern in a public strategic plan without creating legal exposure: several members argued the plan should explicitly require review and mitigation of biases in exams; others urged cautious wording and treating detailed bias analysis as an action-plan task.
The board reviewed objectives for examination…
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