SURVEYING FORUM

2016 Annual Meeting

Agenda •  Overview of NCEES website and member

board resources •  Transition of the PS exam to CBT •  Examinee volumes and pass rates •  State updates on state-specific surveying

exams

Agenda •  Survey Education Award •  Forum on the future of surveying •  Pokémon Go and Geospatial Professions •  UAS use without proper FAA certification •  Deregulation of survey licensing •  Inefficiencies with surveying mobility

NCEES website and Member Resources section

http://www.ncees.org

PS transition to CBT •  PS exam will be Linear-on-the-Fly-Testing (LOFT). •  The exam will be available for year-round testing. •  Examinees will have a unique form similar in difficulty

and assembled around the same minimal competence ability level.

•  All examinees will be tested on the same topics.

PS transition to CBT •  Each form will have 100 items.

– 85 will be scored and contribute to their result. –  15 will be pretest items (not contributing to their result, but

will be evaluated based on responses and may be in a future pool).

•  An electronic version of the reference book will be provided on screen at the test center.

•  Alternative item types (AITs) will be introduced with the PS exam.

PS transition to CBT •  PS exam appointments begin on October 3, 2016.

Currently, – 121 examinees have scheduled with Pearson VUE to

take the exam in the October–December window. – 76 examinees are registered with NCEES and waiting on

their boards to approve them. – 38 examinees are approved but have not yet scheduled

their appointment with Pearson VUE.

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Months from graduation

Number of takers Pass rate

6 74 66% 12 31 68% 24 18 50% 35 11 22% 48 4 75% 60 3 33%

>60 9 11% TOTAL 150

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Institution Number of graduates

New Jersey Institute of Technology 16 California State University Fresno 11 Ferris State University 11 St. Cloud State University 10 University of Maine Orono 10 Penn State University Wilkes-Barre Campus— Commonwealth College 9

Nicholls State University 8 Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico 8

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Institution (continued) Number of graduates

Alfred State College 7 East Tennessee State University 7 Idaho State University 7 Oregon Institute of Technology 6 University of Akron Summit College 6 University of Alaska Anchorage 5 Florida Atlantic University 4 Michigan Technological University 4

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Institution (continued) Number of graduates

New Mexico State University 4 Troy University 4 Istanbul Technical University (ITU) 2 Southern Polytechnic State University 2 Texas A and M University Corpus Christi 2 University of Florida 2 University of Houston College of Technology 2 California State Polytechnic University Pomona 1

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Institution (continued) Number of Graduates

Ohio State University 1 Purdue University West Lafayette 1 Total 150

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Degree name Number

Surveying Engineering 31 Geomatics 24 Surveying Engineering Technology 17 Surveying option in Engineering Technology 16 Surveying and Mapping 15 Land Surveying and Mapping Science 10 Geomatics Engineering (previously accredited as Surveying Engineering) 8

Land Surveying and Mapping 8

FS examinee demographics FS examinees with a four-year surveying degree (January 2014–May 2014)

Degree name (continued) Number

Geomatics Engineering 7 Geomatics Technology 7 Geographic Information Science 2 Surveying and Mapping Technology 2 Geospatial Engineering option in Civil Engineering (previously Surveying option in Civil Engineering 1

Land Surveying Engineering 1 Surveying and Geomatics Sciences 1 Total 150

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FS and PS Exam Usage

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FS Volumes by Year and Window

2014_C01.02   2015_C01.02   2016_C01.03   2014_C04.05   2015_C04.05   2016_C04.06   2014_C07.08   2015_C07.08   2016_C07.09   2014_C10.11   2015_C10.11  

FS exam pass rates 2013

October 2014_C01.05 2014_C07.11 2015_C01.05 2015_C07.11 2016_C01.06

Total number of examinees 531 367 376 447 427 532

Number of first-time examinees 355 282 253 301 280 363

First-time pass rate 68% 54% 48% 54% 54% 47%

Repeat pass rate 27% 14% 21% 23% 25% 23%

PS exam pass rates 2013

October 2014_P04 2014_P10 2015_P04 2015_P10 2016_P04

Total number of examinees 496 495 397 450 381 384

Number of first-time examinees 287 348 261 295 259 258

First-time pass rate 76% 69% 71% 78% 80% 72%

Repeat pass rate 41% 37% 45% 45% 34% 38%

Agenda •  State updates on state-specific surveying exams •  Survey Education Award •  Forum on the future of surveying •  Pokémon Go and Geospatial Professions •  UAS use without proper FAA certification •  Deregulation of survey licensing •  Inefficiencies with surveying mobility

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