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In accordance with CAE policy, the names of all publicly sanctioned certificants and the violations of the ASAE Standards of Conduct, CAE Code of Professional Conduct, and/or CAE program policies involved, as determined by the CAE Commission, must be made publicly available. A listing of… 

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Exam results are available approximately six to eight weeks after the exam. For security reasons, the credentialing department cannot release results via email, fax, or over the phone. 

Your peers, the CAE Commission, and its committees. The group judges the difficulty of each test question against the content and the degree to which the incorrect responses are difficult to distinguish from the correct responses. They use a mathematical… 

This is a method where candidates are evaluated against a predetermined standard rather than relative to each other. 

The pass-fail cut-off will be determined using a criterion-referenced method. 

The CAE Item-Writing Committee, composed of qualified CAEs, writes the exam questions reflective of the competencies in the CAE exam content outline.  The CAE Exam Committee, composed of qualified CAEs, uses the content outline to develop each CAE examination form. Following the… 

Psychometricians—experts in test development—prefer this form of question to the less sophisticated and more subjective essay question. 

The exam does not test communication skills or behavior. It emphasizes the application of the concepts and principles of sound association management practices. High-level cognitive skills, such as data interpretation and problem-solving, are assessed in multiple-choice questions that pose management dilemmas and…