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How does the process work?
Your board names the required categories in the order. The licensee registers at ebas.org, pays, and takes a 60-minute assessment at a Prometric testing center. Results go to your board and the licensee within five to seven business days.
See Who Does What: Board, Licensee, and EBAS.
Can the assessment be tailored to a profession or a violation?
Yes. Scenarios are written to a specific occupation and violation type, so a nurse and a dentist facing the same category receive different scenarios. Your board names the category and EBAS selects the scenario.
See How to Choose the Right Categories for a Case.
How is it scored, and by whom?
Two graders score every assessment independently against a published rubric, without seeing the licensee’s name or state. Each of the four sections scores 1 to 4, and 12 of a possible 16 is required to pass.
See How an Assessment Is Scored.
What happens if a licensee does not pass?
They can retake it. There is no limit unless your board sets one, each retake uses a new scenario and different graders, and the fee applies each time.
See Retakes, No-Shows, and Missed Deadlines.
How many assessments should we assign?
EBAS recommends three or more for most cases. A single assessment covers a single scenario, and three or more show whether the licensee’s reasoning holds across different situations.
See How to Choose the Right Categories for a Case.
Can a licensee prepare for it?
The rubric is published and EBAS provides preparation guidance. There is no course and nothing to memorize, because the assessment measures reasoning through a situation rather than recall.
See What to Tell a Licensee Who Gets an Assessment.
How do you know it measures what it claims to?
The assessment was evaluated in a peer-reviewed study published in Ethics & Behavior, based on 562 completed responses.
See Validity and Reliability of the EBAS Assessment.
Does it predict whether a licensee will reoffend?
No. It is not designed to measure recidivism and EBAS makes no claim about future conduct. It measures whether a licensee can recognize an ethical problem, understand its consequences, and describe what would resolve it.
How often are scenarios updated?
EBAS maintains more than 700 scenarios and adds new ones on an ongoing basis, each reviewed by a committee before it enters the test bank.
Does EBAS provide the education our orders require?
Yes. EBAS Ethics Remedial Education is one-on-one sessions with an independent consultant who has a regulatory background. EBAS handles registration and payment, and your board gets a written summary after each education session.
See How EBAS Handles an Education Requirement.
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Questions from boards go to admin@ebas.org or 888-676-3227.
