"The following press release is from the Association of Social Work Boards.
Please contact Lavina Harless (lharless@...) if you are interested or have
questions.

ASWB LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR EXAM WRITERS

The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) has announced its annual search for
licensed social workers to write examination questions for the social work
licensure tests used in the United States and Canada. The writers selected for
2010 will join the network of subject matter experts who are paid to create test
questions on a wide range of social work topics.

Social work subject matter experts from diverse demographic and practice
backgrounds are the initial authors of the questions ultimately included on the
ASWB licensing examinations used in 49 states, the District of Columbia, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
These writers are trained by ASWB and contracted to write 30 questions that meet
the association's standards. Writers are paid $1,000 for each set of 30
questions accepted.

The group of writers is balanced for racial, ethnic, geographic, and practice
diversity, and includes social workers from the United States and Canada at all
levels of practice, including social work faculty.

Social workers who are interested in applying to write questions for the social
work licensing exams should visit ASWB's website, www.aswb.org, for more
information and to download the application. All application materials must be
submitted electronically by December 1, 2009.

The Association of Social Work Boards is the organization of social work
regulatory bodies in the United States and Canada. In addition to the social
work licensing examinations, ASWB assists social work regulatory boards by
providing a variety of services including disciplinary action databanks, the
Social Work Registry, and the ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program."