What is SPEC?
The Special Purposes Examination for Chiropractic (SPEC) is an examination for re-assessing clinical competency and licensing eligibility in cases involving disciplinary action, reciprocity, and other state board needs. It demonstrates proficiency in conditions generally encountered in chiropractic practice. Facilitating unprecedented geographic mobility, SPEC is often used for state-to-state reciprocity. Since its introduction in 1998, more than 70 percent of SPEC examinees have taken the examination to obtain state licensure reciprocity. The SPEC test plan is based on practice requirements obtained from the NBCE’s chiropractic job analysis survey. The material presented in SPEC requires that examinees demonstrate the appropriate clinical understanding and judgments required in general chiropractic practice. SPEC is designed to assess individuals who hold or have held a license to practice chiropractic.
SPEC is the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. SPEC is a non-profit organization whose members include computer hardware vendors, software companies, universities, research organizations, systems integrators, publishers and consultants. SPEC’s goal is to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks for computer systems. Although no one set of tests can fully characterize overall system performance, SPEC believes that the user community benefits from objective tests which can serve as a common reference point.
SPEC is an acronym for the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. SPEC is a non-profit organization composed of computer vendors, systems integrators, universities, research organizations, publishers and consultants whose goal is to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks for computer systems. Although no one set of tests can fully characterize overall system performance, SPEC believes that the user community will benefit from an objective series of tests that can serve as a common reference point.
