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Last year, the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) had made a directive to continue a credible and reliable licensure examination. Despite the health protocols and the possibility of Covid-19 infection, the commission decided to administer the exam with strict protocols from the IATF. A limited number of examinations were conducted nationwide, prioritizing the necessity to strengthen the health care system and to augment the shortage of healthcare professionals in response to the Covid-19 crises that devastated the Philippines Health care system. Despite the government restrictions and the continuous declaration of extended community quarantine to stop the spread of the virus, the plan to lift the temporary suspension finally realize when the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) eventually approve the proposal submitted by the Commission to lift the temporary suspension. The demand of new Health professionals as well as the stipula

               Around 5,000 years ago, on the country where the Confucian classics and the system of merits and intellect were supposed to be the standard for acquiring a position in the realm. The Chinese first to engineer a systematic though rudimentary form of the first psychological testing, the civil service examination. At its earliest form where it was use for selection process for civil servants to the mapping of brains of the ancient Egyptian civilization and the scientific curiosity over the behavior and the reaction to a stimulus of an individual and the unimaginable tales of trauma and horrors of the Great War, that push the discipline to become a new form of field in science, the psychology. Its roots seem already a long way yet the grand entry of the discipline and become part of the greater body of science is only less than three generations old. From the superficial psychological testing during the ancient times to the objectivity of trying to measure the intellect or t

  Articles for Teachers “They do not merely collect text; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and above all, write analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method” as stated by Alan Dundes an American Folklorist. Though his statement clearly is not on the context of psychological test and item analysis yet it shows the objective of the item analysis. In psychological testing, this item analysis refers to the selection of the items or questionnaires that will be use to promote a reliable and valid sets of items. It also shortens the number of questions but guarantees the right data are collected and the test objectives are met. A meticulous, exhaustive process of filtering the correct    items that relatively correlate to the theory and principles being use by the test maker. Let’s just say it’s a quality control wherein the items are