Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP)
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The Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) is a licensing examination that is used in most US states
and Canadian provinces
.
The Examination is multiple choice, and tests eight content areas all representing a specific percentage of the exam. These include the Biological bases of behaviour (12%), Cognitive-affective bases of behaviour (13%), Social and multicultural bases of behaviour (12%), Growth and life span development (12%), Assessment and diagnosis (14%), Research methods and statistics (8%), and Ethical, legal and professional issues (15%).
It has been demonstrated that graduates of regionally accredited
programs tend to get higher mean scores than those of regionally unaccredited programs. It has also been argued that clinical psychology
programs whose graduates have higher EPPP scores tend to have the following features: higher admissions standards, a higher faculty to graduate students
ratio, undertake more research.
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
and Canadian provinces
Provinces and territories of Canada
The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...
.
The Examination is multiple choice, and tests eight content areas all representing a specific percentage of the exam. These include the Biological bases of behaviour (12%), Cognitive-affective bases of behaviour (13%), Social and multicultural bases of behaviour (12%), Growth and life span development (12%), Assessment and diagnosis (14%), Research methods and statistics (8%), and Ethical, legal and professional issues (15%).
It has been demonstrated that graduates of regionally accredited
Regional accreditation
Regional accreditation is a term used in the United States to refer to educational accreditation conducted by any of several accreditation bodies established to serve six defined geographic areas of the country for accreditation of schools, colleges, and universities...
programs tend to get higher mean scores than those of regionally unaccredited programs. It has also been argued that clinical psychology
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development...
programs whose graduates have higher EPPP scores tend to have the following features: higher admissions standards, a higher faculty to graduate students
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
ratio, undertake more research.