A Multidiscipline Study of Education Program Accreditation Type and Certification Exam Performance.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the relationship between radiologic technologists' performance on 3 medical certification exams and the type of accredited education program they attended.


METHODS
Data came from 3 certification exam programs administered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). The author used simple means and mixed-effect models to analyze 13 years of data.


RESULTS
The difference in performance between programs with and without programmatic accreditation, as modeled with linear mixed-effect models, amounted to approximately 2 exam questions out of 200 for radiography, no difference for nuclear medicine technology, and approximately 4 questions out of 200 for radiation therapy.


CONCLUSIONS
Exam performance differences among the accreditation types were not large, if they indeed existed, for ARRT certification exam data.
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Babcock
D000068:Accreditation; D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D013679:Technology, Radiologic / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States
accreditation; certification; education; exam performance; radiologic technology certification