While we'd love to go to every conference or meeting to talk about the value of certification, we just can't swing it. However, if you are a CSP and would like to promote professionalism and certifications in your local area we can help.

The BCSP tabletop displays are a great way to promote the CSP, OHST/CLCS, CHST, or STS certifications and earn COC/CM credit. A display is available to any certificate holder for use at chapter meetings, regional or local conferences, career fairs, and other safety-related seminars, meetings, and presentations. BCSP and CCHEST ships via FedEx to and from any U.S. venue. In addition, BCSP will ship literature for free to any U.S. address, without the display, for those individuals who are looking to have "leave behind materials" after presentations, for safety classrooms or to give to colleagues.

The display is easy to set up and the best part is you don't have to pay for the display being sent to you or you sending it back to BCSP! Our displays have logged more FedEx miles than most FedEx drivers!
 
If you would like to request a display and/or free literature, fill out a Literature Request Form and contact Sean McDevitt. It is best to contact Sean two to four weeks prior to an event, as the schedule fills up quickly.

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When something special happens here at BCSP, we are ready to celebrate... usually with cake!  Here are a few pictures of our most recent celebrations.

Surprise Pre-Wedding Party for Alexis Dodd


Alexis is totally surprised by the cake.


About to cut the cake


Alexis and Kimmy pass out slices of the cake.

Roger Brauer's Last Day as Executive Director


A totally surprised Roger sees more cake and a "private" lunch.


Brandishing the cake knife, Roger threatens the staff one last time.


Christy and Barb show-off their Illini spirit at Roger's Last Day Party

Jana Pflugmacher: BCSPs first employee with over 20 years of dedicated service


The traditional twenty year gifts: A bird hat, flower necklace and clown glasses.


Dennis passes out cake to the staff while Roger declines to comment on his knife skills.

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How do you set a passing score for a professional licensing or certification examination? Does someone pick a percentage like teachers do? Is scoring based on the distribution of scores like achievement tests or is it like "grading on a curve?"

None of these approaches is acceptable, since a major requirement for certification accreditation is to ensure that all candidates have an equal chance of passing and cannot be affected by the score of anyone else. The answer is criterion-based scoring.

Criterion-based scoring provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter, which is appropriate for our certifications. This type of scoring involves a cutscore, where the examinee passes if their score exceeds the cutscore and fails if it does not. There must be a passing score based on meeting a standard which applies to all candidates, which is not arbitrarily chosen.

BCSP and CCHEST follow accepted psychometric procedures for setting a passing score as outlined by CASTLE Worldwide, one of the nation's leading certification and licensure testing companies. The setting of cut scores requires convening a panel of subject matter experts representing the breadth and depth of the safety profession. The panel evaluates the examination, panel members' individual ratings are aggregated and a cut score is determined representing the minimum competency.

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