🚨 Major Updates Coming to the 2026 ASWB Exam! 🚨

ASWB is rolling out key changes to its licensing exams, based on the 2024 Analysis of the Practice of Social Work. Here’s what you need to know:

ASWB has revamped the competence assessment blueprints for 2026, making major structural updates while keeping content changes minimal.

🔹 What’s Changing?

✅ Reorganized Exam Blueprint – Content areas reduced from four to three for a more streamlined structure.

✅ Applied Knowledge Statements – Replaces traditional KSAs, shifting the focus to real-world application of knowledge rather than simple recall (rote memorization.

✅ Greater Emphasis on Values & Ethics – This section will now carry the highest percentage of questions, reflecting its growing importance in social work.

✅The new content areas will be: Values and Ethics, Assessment and Planning, and Intervention and Practice. 

🔹 Why These Changes?These updates are data-driven, based on input from 25,000+ social workers to ensure the exam better reflects real-world practice.

🔹 What’s Next?A diverse panel of 75+ social workers will help set the passing standards for the new exams, ensuring fairness and accuracy.

The 2026 ASWB exams are designed to be clearer, more relevant, and competency-focused and reflect a valid and reliable interpretation of social work practice across the U.S. and Canada.

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