SUBPART D
This subpart prescribes the requirements for the issuance of examining authority, and the privileges and limitation of that authority.
147.33 Application and qualification
(a) Application
for an examining authority is made on a form and in a manner prescribed by the
ECAA.
(b) To be eligible for an examining authority an applicant must fulfill the following conditions:
(1)
Examiners and evaluators shall be approved
instructors who previously participated in teaching the courses subject to test
or have previous experience in evaluating similar materials;
(2)
Tests shall be conducted in approved facilities;
(3)
Time required for exams shall be appropriate to
answer all questions;
(4)
The exam of each course shall cover all subjects
taught in that course while avoiding concentration on one specific subject;
(5)
It is possible to prepare a collection of questions,
covering all syllabus points with a number satisfactory to the ECAA, and
providing them to the students, and choosing from these questions for any exam;
and
(6)
All exam questions shall satisfy the following
conditions:
(i)
Each question shall deal with one point only;
(ii)
Questions shall be short, direct, definite, concise,
clear and deduced from approved course references, and shall not contain any
additional outside information;
(iii)
Questions shall not have multiple meanings and shall
have only one correct answer;
(iv)
All questions shall be positive, and shall avoid
negative verbage and indirect or composite questions;
(v)
Multiple choice questions and their answers shall be
extracted from approved course references;
(vi)
Questions giving information about other questions
shall be prevented; and
(vii)
Maintenance and overhaul exams shall be open book,
and may be composed of multiple choice questions to a maximum of 75% of the
questions.
(a) The applicant shall
submit a request for approval to conduct certification exams on a form and in a
manner prescribed by the ECAA, at least 3 weeks before conducting the course
exam for the first time.
(b) Upon
fulfilling all approval requirements, permission is normally given to the
training department to conduct the exam once under the supervision of ECAA
inspectors.
(c) If no
objections are found on the type of exam presented, The ECAA may then approve
the exam.
147.35 through 147.109 Reserved