I tutor & proctor GED (grade 12 equivalency) courses & exams.
The proctor does not answer questions concerning test questions.
After the exam starts there is no talking.
The proctor makes sure there is no cheating & the start stop times are met.
The exam would be on paper, not on line, no possibility of cheating.
A second person marks the exam not the proctor.
The exam document has a number not a name.
Only the proctor or third person knows the names that goes with the numbers.
At the GED exam the student is not allowed to use their own pen’s pencil’s or calculator’s, no possibility of cheating.
The test questions should continually change.
There should be an Alberta (Canadian) specific section.
There must be no possibility of cheating by the student, proctor or marker.
If the InterNACHI training & exam is to be better than CD it must be done without any possibility of condemnation.
And yes, there will be a cost involved.
Fwiw
I don’t know why one would not be permitted to bring in books as the Ontario Building Code exam is an open book exam.
ICC exams and InterNACHI exams are open book too. It’s not supposed to be a memory test.
Inspect4U got informal approval today based on InterNACHI’s courses. Formal letter coming next week. We did it!
Congratulations to you … and to the many NACHI members who will benefit by this.
Congratulations! I know Inspect4U had to work extremely hard to get the approval. It’s great now that there is an option for Alberta home inspectors to get licenced. Good work Alan and everyone involved!!!
You have to get involved with the Alberta process and possibly get paid to set it up!
ICC and other codes require exact knowledge for enforcement purposes and the building inspector needs access to quote exactly while doing their jobs so the open book exam is also a test of the inspectors ability to use their time effectively and efficiently. The more you don’t know where the item isthat you may have forgotten or need help on, the poorer your exam result be. Have a look at the CEC and see how easy it is to navigate around in that puppy if you’re not familiar with it!!!
“InterNACHI exams are open book too. It’s not supposed to be a memory test.”
When doing home inspections we don’t carry or have onsite access to all the items we’re supposed to know. We should have from memory, training and experience, the skills/knowledge/experiential history in our heads to do the inspection promptly and accurately…an open book exam for this function is a joke!!
I disagree. These are the two Inspection Guides that I would NEVER do an inspection without:
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Always something for sale here, isn’t there?? A sales platform masquerading as an association!
I would need my Truck just to carry my library and make two trips. One would be with my ladders and one with my books. The inspection would be two days long and they would have to provide me with a area to write up the report because I don’t like leaving my V10 truck running on a hot day.
My report would be about 500+pages long and you would have to take out a small loan to pay my 100/hr inspection fees.
Ya and the Building Code is a lot tougher, you got things backwards as usual. Excuses, excuses, find fault in everything.
Have you ever heard of computer generated reports via the web onsite?
One has at their disposal a virtual library!
Get with the times you old outdated wacko!
Your report, as a minimum should be based on the “Standards of Practice” & now in Alberta the new regulations.
If this takes you a 100 hours to do, so be it.
In my original message I indicated that testing must be credible.
Open book exams are not credible.
The opposition would condemn the process. It would be no different than sitting at home with your books taking the exam on the computer.
sorry i was tired and forgot the lol!
As already stated and at least in Ontario the building code exam is open book, and done with a Invigilator so arguments about open book be credible are moot, at least any argument from an Ontario pov if and when licencing comes about and manner it is instituted.
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page8606.aspx
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page8602.aspx
SO Inspect4U But no Inachi , same as BC.
Don’t hold your breath!
If it takes you 101 hours to provide an inspection and credible report based on the “Standards of Practice” so be it.
The proctor process John Mills described, is exactly how every exam was organized, that I have taken in Alberta, including designated seat and numbered exams.
Tell it to ICC, Harvard, Yale, the Bar Exam, Professional Engineers exam, and the military.