Who writes the questions?
Social work practitioners across the country are contracted and trained by ASWB to write and edit potential items for the ASWB item pool. All examination items must meet with the approval of the ASWB Examination Committee before being pretested. All examination items are pretested before they are included as official scored items.
CNN employees work with our polling partners at Time magazine and USA Today, as well as professionals at Gallup and Yankelovich, to draw up the questionnaires. We spend hours — sometimes days — writing the questions. Often we “pre-test” them by paying for 50-100 interviews which are conducted solely to help us improve our questions. The wording of a question, and which other questions it follows, can affect the question’s results. We recognize this, and the amount of effort we spend to write fair, unbiased questions reflects this.
We can write questions – but we would prefer if they would come from you. Yes, PMT has written a lot of questions over the years. Our talent lies in writing questions that will motivate people to review your content in the process of searching for the answer. However, only you and the people working with you really know how the content relates to sales and job performance. You know the information that counts. You can add value to the question and the source material by adding information into the question that may not be apparent in the content. But, if you are a one-person shop without the time or resources to develop your own questions, we’d be pleased to help out.
