In 2022, ASWB released exam data that they had long denied even possessing. That data showed significant disparities in exam performance on the basis of race and ethnicity, leading to calls that their exams should be suspended or abolished. Some states have done so, at least at some licensure levels.
Since those 2022 revelations, ASWB has made two significant promises about how they would move forward with greater transparency around their exams: 1, They would continue to provide data broken down by demographic factors like race, and 2, They would release all of their psychometric validation studies.
So far, they haven’t fulfilled either promise.
Some problems can have large impacts, and still go unnoticed by the public and policymakers. 
Regular readers here know that when it comes to clinical exams for mental health licensure, 
This week, legislators in Maryland introduced a pair of bills (
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences will discuss clinical exams this Friday. My colleague Tony Rousmaniere and I decided to dig into these exams, beyond just the