Choosing PAEA Assessment
Master License Agreement
To access the Assessment Center platform, all PAEA Assessment user programs must sign the Master License Agreement (MLA). Please note that PAEA is not accepting any revisions or addenda.
Program directors will be sent the agreement after completing the form. Forward this document through your internal review channels.
Setup Instructions and Guides
Assessment Center User Guide – 2026 Update – ITS
user guideFaculty Guides
PACKRAT®
PACKRAT is an objective, comprehensive self-assessment tool for student and curricular evaluation and a foundational tool that recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
End of Rotation™
End of Rotation exams are a set of objective, standardized evaluations intended to serve as one measure of the medical knowledge students gain during specific supervised clinical practice experiences.
End of Curriculum™
The End of Curriculum exam is an objective, standardized evaluation of a student’s medical knowledge as one component of their readiness for graduation.
Faculty Guide Supplements
PACKRAT®
The purpose of this supplement is to describe the changes to how we report “Year One” and “Year Two” data and how you access the new Assessment Center score report dashboards.
End of Curriculum™
The purpose of this supplement is to provide an update on the 2021 Standard Setting Study, including the updated categorical scores.
End of Curriculum™
The purpose of this supplement is to show how you access the new Assessment Center score report dashboards.
Key Policies and Procedures
There are two equated forms available of the End of Curriculum™ exam. If a student fails on his or her first attempt and the PA program would like the student to retake the End of Curriculum exam, they may do so only once and no earlier than 60 days after their initial administration. This ensures that the student and program have adequate time to develop and implement an individualized remediation plan.
*Note: Following the transition to the new assessment platform on March 16, 2026, PAEA will reduce this waiting period to 42 days, or six weeks after the initial administration.
Students can take all available forms (three Family Medicine forms, two for all others) for the first time in accordance with program policy. The first form is randomly assigned to all students, and when taking it a second or third time they are assigned a form they have not seen before.
After all forms have been given once, programs must wait 21 days after the last administration to allow for remediation before the student will be eligible for additional resits. During this 21 day period the student will not be available for selection when scheduling that type of exam. The student will become available to schedule for the exam once again when selecting a date 21 days after the last administration.
- PACKRAT – three 75-question sections, two 10-minute breaks
- Standard Time: 75 minutes per section
- Time and a Half: 113 minutes per section
- Double Time: 150 minutes per section
- End of Rotation – two 60-question sections, one 10-minute break
- Standard Time: 60 minutes per section
- Time and a Half: 90 minutes per section
- Double Time: 120 minutes per section
- End of Curriculum
- Standard Time: five 60-question sections, 60 minutes per section, four 10-minute breaks
- Time and a Half: Two days, five 30-question sections each day, 45 minutes per section, four 10-minute breaks each day
- Double Time: Two days, five 30-question sections each day, 60 minutes per section, four 10-minute breaks each day
The Program Director or PAEA account manager is responsible for granting Assessment Center permissions, and not everyone will have the same access. If you are missing access to complete a task, please check with your PD or account manager.
Below are the available roles for the Assessment Hub, and one of three may be assigned:
- Assessment Hub: Users with this role have access to the entire Assessment Hub and can manage the program’s student roster, schedule exams, proctor exams, and view score reports.
- Proctor: Users with this role have permission to proctor exams within the Assessment Hub, but do not have access to other areas for editing students, exam schedules, or accessing score reports. This role is not for remote proctoring services.
- Score Reports: Users with this role have permission to view the Score Reports menu in the Assessment Hub, but do not have access to other areas for editing students, scheduling exams, or proctoring. Ideal for faculty or staff who need to look at score reports for the purposes of student advising, or programmatic data analysis.
Ordering Agent: Users with this role have permission to use the PAEA Assessment Shop to order exams. This access is in addition to one of the Assessment Hub roles.
Your program’s exam security efforts help maintain fair and reliable assessments for all PA students nationwide. Together, we ensure every student’s scores reflect their true abilities and knowledge.
When a student at your program engages in inappropriate behavior, PAEA is here to support your investigation process. PAEA’s policy on investigations and violations, on page 16 of the PAEA Assessment Exam Policies document, outlines how we’ll work together to examine all perspectives of a case, determine the impact on PAEA’s exam data, and prevent similar incidents in the future.
Here’s how to report an incident:
- Use our confidential reporting tool, EthicsPoint, to submit incident details. Program faculty, staff, and students, or testing center staff, can use the tool to communicate securely with PAEA investigators.
- Receive a Report Key for case follow-up.
- PAEA will use this portal to acknowledge the report within one business day and ask follow-up questions to understand the allegation and aid in the investigation.
- Work with our investigation team to resolve the situation.