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Nat Home Inspector Exam
News Release
NATIONAL HOME INSPECTOR EXAMINATION
RESPONDS TO FALSE POST ON INTERNACHI MESSAGE BOARD
May 7, 2008, Palatine, IL – A recent post on the InterNACHI message board has proven false, according to Pearson VUE, Inc., psychometric contractor for the National Home Inspector Examination.
On April 10, 2008, a claim was made that a group of questions and answers was available from the actual National Home Inspector Examination. Later, a group of home inspection-related questions and answers were posted on the InterNACHI message board. After investigation, the material has proven to be from sources OTHER THAN the NHIE’s question and answer item bank.
The Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors ensures that the NHIE is both valid and reliable, two qualities required for legal defensibility. Development, maintenance and administration – including security measures – adhere to accepted psychometric standards. Test takers can be confident that their score is reliable due to the test security measures EBPHI employs.
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I find this fascinating and revealing. The InterNACHI message board allows people to run off at the mouth freely. Even after the poster of that message acknowledged that he was mistaken about the source of the questions, you choose to issue press releases like this.
This type of conduct is unprofessional and so obviously political in nature. Everyone knows that you are free to confront anyone on that message board with the facts, yet you choose to swat a fly with a Nuke. What a silly and wasteful activity. Your presumtion that anybody gives a **** is enourmously amusing.
In my state, all home inspectors are required to take the NHIE and I can tell you that a good majority of inspectors here find the idea that the NHIE is "valid and reliable", to be laughable. The typical remark upon exiting the exam is "WTF was that?", or "That is suppose to be a home inspectors exam?"
Personally I have never seen an exam that was so off the mark and so overloaded with questions that have little to nothing to do with home inspection. I guess if you pack it with enough questions that no one needs or cares to know, you can disguise the small amount of questions that are seriously related to our industry, Many inspectors with a moderate amount of construction knowledge have guessed their way into passing the NHIE. Passing it is truly not in the least bit any indicator of competence.
Rather than running around tooting your own horn, it may be a good time to get back to the drawing board and develop a decent exam. I'll bet there is a hotbed of qualified inspectors over at InterNACHI that would be happy to lend a hand.
