NCCER Construction Technologist Entry-Level Assessment
Credential Source Contact Information
- Source Company Name:
- NCCER
- Contact:
- Scott Fisher, WFD Support Manager
- Phone:
- 888622.3720,ext.6910
- Email:
- sfisher@nccer.org
- Website:
- www.nccer.org
Credential Contractor
- Credential Contractor:
- Same as source
- Contact:
- Same as source
- Phone:
- Same as source
- Email:
- Same as source
Test Administration
- Test Site:
-
- School: Online
- Contractor's location
- Testing facility
- Paper & Pencil
- No
- Can the instructor take this test?:
- No
- Number of Test Items:
- 375 (17 required module tests)
- Time Allowed (minutes):
- 60 minutes per module test
- Passing Score (percent):
- 70
- Cost Per Test:
- Two billing options: 1) $2.25 per test used, invoiced monthly, or 2) $20 per student subscription (unlimited tests-subscription duration is for the time period running from August 1 to June 30)
- Test Specifics:
- Additional information:
Note: Students must satisfy the prerequisite requirement of the NCCER Core: Introduction to Basic Construction Skills.
Seventeen required module tests to earn Construction Technology certificate.
NCCER’s credentials are industry-recognized and include a written test and a performance test. Core curriculum completion is a prerequisite for any Level One craft certificate from NCCER.
NCCER is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) education foundation created in 1996 as The National Center for Construction Education and Research. NCCER’s mission is to build a safe, productive and sustainable workforce of craft professionals. Our vision is to be universally recognized by industry and government as the training, assessment, certification and career development standard for construction and maintenance craft professionals. NCCER’s credentials are industry-recognized and include both a written test and a performance test.
Possible Preparatory Courses
Timing
- Multiple test sessions:
- No
- Time of day
- Yes
- Order of tasks
- Yes
- Planned breaks during test
- No
- Is extended time an option for the test-taker?
- No
Setting
- Test location
- Yes
- Adaptive or special furniture
- Yes
- Special lighting
- Yes
Presentation
- Written directions accompanying oral directions
- Yes
- Specific verbal prompts
- No
- Visual aids
- No
- Amplification equipment
- Yes
- Headphones, earmuffs, or earplugs
- Yes
- Large-print test
- No
- Braille test
- No
- Read-aloud test
- Yes
- Audio test
- No
- Interpreting/transliterating testing directions
- Yes
- Interpreting/Transliterating the test
- No
Response
- Enlarged copy of the answer document
- No
- Communication board or choice cards
- No
- Examiner records responses
- No
- Brailler
- No
- Word processor or word processor with speech-to-text
- No
- Augmentative communication device
- No
- Word prediction software
- No
- Spelling aids
- No
- English dictionary
- No
- Dictation using a recording device
- No
- Dictation to a scribe
- No
- Read back student response
- No
- Calculator and arithmetic tools
- No
- Calculator with additional functions
- No
- Math aids
- No
- Dry erase board
- No
- Additional writing implements
- Yes
- Audio test
- No
- Bilingual dictionary
- No
- Dictation to a scribe
- No
- English dictionary
- No
- Examiner records responses
- No
- Flexible Schedule
- Yes
- Is extended time an option for the test-taker?
- No
- Multiple test sessions
- No
- Read-aloud test
- Yes
- Test directions delivery
- Yes
- Visual aids
- No
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