The Purpose of this Wiki
Your profession is a rapidly growing, dynamic one. That means the duties performed and skills necessary to perform them are constantly changing. This impacts the measurement of competency in your field, and CWEA must strive to keep up with it. Each of CWEA's certification vocations must be reviewed at least every five years to ensure our exams match your real-world job experience. CWEA's Environmental Compliance Inspector (ECI) exam is now up for re-validation to make sure CWEA continues test for the appropriate essential duties (ED). To do that, we need to hear from you, the people who do the work, from entry-level to top management.
The purpose of this wiki is for CWEA to collect feedback from you. Your feedback and discussion threads will be used as reference when CWEA staff revise the current essential duties into a simplified list of knowledge, skills and abilities. The essential duties outlines what subject matter areas and candidates can expect to see on the ECI tests. The test content specifications will vary depending on the grade level.
The current test content areas can be found in the candidate handbook. After we finalize the new test content areas your helping CWEA develop, we will publish the final product on the candidate handbook and the corresponding study guide. This is your opportunity to let us know how the test content areas correspond to your job.
What is a wiki?
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily.
How to Use This Site to Revise the Test Content Areas
First, you must create an account to become a member of this wiki and start posting on the site. Creating an account is free! It's just a way to restrict access to the site and prevent people from making changes to our work in progress. CWEA staff have provided you with the secret password to enable you to join. Please use your real names so we can all identify you. Join now!
You can access the pages associated with a specific ECI certification grade level test content areas by clicking on the links below or by clicking on the essential duties links located on the side navigation bar on the left of this screen.
Project descriptions will be posted in the Projects page. You can find the link to the Projects page on the side navigation bar of this page. CWEA staff will notify you by email if new projects are posted for your review. Click on the link of the grade level you wish to edit or start a discussion about and you will find the list essential duties of that grade level.
