2021 RETA Breeze September-October

RETA TESTING CORNER NO. 26

RETA’S CREDENTIALING EXAMS AND ACTIVITIES Dr. Ron Rodgers, RETA’s Psychometrician (testing expert) and ANSI Accreditation Manager

R ETA HAS RECENTLY taken new steps to encourage greater use of CARO, CIRO and CRST Practice Tests by including one practice test in the application fees for each of these programs. Over 95% of RETA candidates take one of these three tests. RETA staff also can help any candidate who applied before the new pricing policy was approved to register for one CARO, CIRO or CRST practice test for $30. Practice tests provide candidates with the opportunity to become familiar with how to use onscreen references before they take CARO, CIRO or CRST as part of RETA’s commitment to offer fair and valid exams. RETA exams are designed to measure a candidate’s knowledge and skill in industrial refrigeration to protect the health and safety of operators, service technicians and other personnel in the facilities where they work. The first screen a candidate sees at the start of a test is illustrated below. Questions appear on the left side of the vertical line in the

center of the screen. Time remaining appears in a countdown timer above the question. “Mark this item for later review” below the question lets the candidate flag the question to review later. These three buttons also appear below the question near the centerline: • NEXT records the answer to a question and moves to the next question on the test. • REVIEW ALL moves to a screen that shows which questions the candidate has answered and identifies questions the candidate has marked for later review. • SUBMIT EXAM is the first of three steps required to end the test. The CIRO EXAM REFERENCES Table of Contents appears on the right side of this sample screen. CARO and CRST examinations use similar reference documents. Study guides for each test include all of the references that appear onscreen during the full examinations and in each practice test.

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