Florida Administrative Code › 61 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION › 61 - Departmental › Chapter 61-11 - EXAMINATIONS › Section 61-11.007 - Conduct at Test Site, and Notice of Protection Privileges by and to the Department

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The examination
				supervisor, proctors, and computer-based testing (CBT)-contracted vendor are
				the Department's designated agents in maintaining a secure and proper
				examination administration.
(2) The
				department and its designated agents shall use any technology reasonably
				necessary to protect the integrity and security of any licensure examination.
				To safeguard and maintain the validity, reliability, integrity, security, and
				confidentiality of the examination items, as set forth in Sections
				119.07(6),
				119.071(1)(a),
				455.217(1)(e),
				(5),
				455.229(1),
				(2), F.S., Rules
				61-11.006 and
				61-11.017, F.A.C., candidates
				must wait a twenty-four (24) hour grace period after the release date on the
				original failed grade notification to reschedule on-line or through any contact
				with a representative of the Department or CBT-contracted vendor to reschedule
				for any failed examination.
(3) Any
				individual found by the Department or any board within the Department to have
				engaged in conduct which subverts or attempts to subvert the examination
				process will be subject to confiscation of any written, photographic, or
				recording materials or devices in the possession of the applicant at the
				examination site, will have his or her scores on the examination withheld
				and/or declared invalid, be disqualified from the practice of the profession,
				and/or be subject to the imposition of other appropriate sanctions by the
				Department or, if administered by a board within the Department, by the
				applicable board. Any individual under investigation for an alleged violation
				of Section 455.2175, F.S., shall be
				prohibited from taking another exam until the criminal investigation determines
				if a violation occurred. If the investigation reveals that a violation did
				occur, the individual is prohibited from taking another exam for licensure with
				the Department.
(4) Conduct which
				subverts or attempts to subvert the examination process includes:
(a) Conduct which violates the security of
				the examination materials, such as removing from the examination room any of
				the examination materials; reproducing or reconstructing any portion of the
				licensing examination; aiding by any means in the reproduction or
				reconstruction of any portion of the licensing examination; selling,
				distributing, buying, receiving or having unauthorized possession of any
				portion of a future or current licensing examination.
(b) Conduct which violates the standard of
				test administration, such as communicating with any other applicant during the
				administration of the examination; copying answers from another applicant or
				permitting one's answers to be copied by another applicant during the
				administration of the examination; having in one's possession during the
				administration of the licensing examination any book, notes, written or printed
				materials or data of any kind, other than the examination materials distributed
				or specifically listed as approved materials for the examination room in the
				information provided to the applicant in advance of the examination date by the
				Department and/or the national supplier of the examination.
(c) Conduct which violates the credentialing
				process, such as falsifying or misrepresenting educational credentials or other
				information required for admission to the examination; impersonating an
				applicant or having an impersonator take the licensing examination on one's own
				behalf.