You are a new EMS Program Director. You want to assist your students with passing the NREMT certification exam the first time. You want to help raise your institution's overall pass rates. You want to make sure your students are utilizing the best available resources to them.
These are all AWESOME goals! But, how does a new PD accomplish all that? An online solution may help! Maybe a colleague has told you about an online platform or you have experience with one in the past. Do you know the quality of those questions in their bank? Are they valid and secure? Can they provide stats and Customer Support to back up their claims? Platinum Educational Group can!
Quality of Platinum’s Questions
Well, we cannot speak for others, but we can honestly tell you that Platinum Educational Group’s EMSTesting.com has a thorough question bank creation process by National EMS experts! Our questions are unique and are not drawn from a single textbook but rather from multiple sources and a deep depth of knowledge from experienced healthcare professionals and educators including.
Doug Smith, CEO, Medical Educator
Tom Gottschalk, COO, Medical Educator
John Spencer, Director of Education
Larry Stalsonburg, Medical Director
Each item was originally created based on the Registry Practice Analysis, the Educational Standards, and the National Curriculum. All available commonly used textbooks were referenced and when there was a conflict, common practice or the most common response was used. The gold standard reference for drug dosages and indications as well as Cardiac algorithms come from the AHA Guidelines and is updated with each AHA update. Reading levels are reviewed, and we attempt to keep each item within 2 grade levels of the expected reading level for each provider level. Each question is assigned a Bloom level and estimated cut score. Each item is annotated to explain why the correct answer is correct and why the good distracters are not correct. Other content experts, educators, and editors review items. Our Medical Director reviews all high-stakes items, such as those that might be found on a final exam.
All questions are reviewed for cut scores once over 100 candidates have responded and are adjusted based on actual results and the Nedelsky method of calculating cut scores. High-stakes items are reviewed by an experienced Medical Director. All items go through a rigorous beta testing and piloting period.
We have more than 4000 quality questions—one of the largest EMS question banks on the market! We also deliver questions for ALL provider levels!
Validity and Security
On the second Sunday of each month, we receive a printout of the results of our Computer Adaptive Testing results. As of September 2019, we have had over 160 million responses to aid in our validation process!
All our final exams are properly blueprinted to the Registry Practice Analysis, developed and reviewed by experienced EMS educators, reviewed by our Medical Director, and piloted by several programs around the nation prior to implementation. The items as well as the entire exam are reviewed and edited to ensure proper difficulty and cut score, precision, and fairness.
We also thoroughly scour the internet daily to make sure our content is not found on the web. Although it is an ongoing process, NOBODY dedicates the time, money, and resources like Platinum Educational Group to protect its questions!
Stats and Customer Support
If you have any concerns over our validity stats, specific questions in our banks, items related to cut scores, P-values, KR-20 information, or any other statistic, please feel free to reach out directly HERE. As far as our Customer Support, we'll let you hear from our customers.