Examinations APEGA significantly expanded delivery of the National Professional Practice Exam (NPPE) in 2020, administering more than 8,200 exams. This is more than double the number of exams held in 2019 and a record number in the exam’s history.
The NPPE confirms applicants’ knowledge of professionalism, law, and ethics. Almost all Canadian engineering and geoscience regulators, including APEGA, require applicants to pass the NPPE before they can become licensed professionals. As a national leader, APEGA develops and oversees the NPPE for 13 partner jurisdictions across Canada. The addition of two new regulators this year resulted in the increase in exams. • Professional Engineers Ontario adopted the NPPE in June. • The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan adopted the NPPE as a pilot project in November.
NPPE exams are created using psychometric best practices. This is the science of designing, planning, and implementing defensible exams that are fair, valid, and reliable. Despite the increase in exams in 2020, we experienced no testing delays due to pandemic health measures. With support from our testing vendor, we successfully moved all exams online using remote proctoring. This allowed candidates to take the NPPE securely at home using a stable Internet connection and a webcam. Before April, less than one per cent of NPPEs were held remotely.
NUMBER OF CANDIDATES REGISTERED TO TAKE THE NPPE BY YEAR
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