Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3301 - Department of Education - Administration and Director › Chapter 3301-7 - Standards for the Ethical Use of Tests › Section 3301-7-01 - Standards for the ethical use of tests

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) These standards of ethical test practice
			 are
			 used in determining if a practice related to a test is consistent with the
			 principles of performing one's duties with honesty, integrity, due care,
			 fairness to all, ensuring the integrity of the test process, and the
			 reliability and validity of any inference made from any result of a test.
			 Except as otherwise specified,as used in this
			 rule, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Test" includes secure and non-secure
			 state tests as prescribed by sections  3301.0710, 3301.0711,
									
			 3301.0712, and 3301.0715 of the Revised Code, and
			 provided by the department. Test  also
			 includes district and school standardized tests
			 including norm referenced tests. Test includes the test instrument
			 itself and any part of the process of assessing or testing a student.
(2) "Participating school"
			 means any city, exempted village, local, cooperative
			 education, or joint vocational school district or
			 any community or any chartered nonpublic school that
			 participates in state testing; the state school
			 for the blind; the state school for the deaf;  any school operated by the departments of youth
			 services or rehabilitation and corrections; or any entity that tests its
			 students with the state tests.
(3)
			 "Appropriate staff" includes any designated certificated or non-
			 certificated employee of a participating school who has direct access to a test
			 or participates in any activity related to preparing a student for a test.
			 Appropriate will hold a license, certificate, permit, or
			 registration issued by the state board of education in order to administer or
			 score a test and/or interpret or use any result of a test.
(4) "Secure test" includes
			 any test, whether state or national, that is administered to the entire or a
			 portion of the entire state student population and/or that is provided by the
			 state, the results of which are included in Ohio's accountability system, are
			 included as part of a student's course of study, are part of the pre-college
			 admission process, or are prescribed by state and/or federal law. Secure tests
			 are
			 treated as secure materials until released by the test developer and/or the
			 department. They do not include any diagnostic test prescribed to
			 be administered pursuant to section
			 3301.0715 of the Revised Code,
			 any practice test, or any test that already has been released to the public by
			 the test developer or by the department as a public record following the school
			 year that the test was administered in accordance with
			 section 3301.0711 of the Revised
			 Code.
(5) "State test " means
			 any test that is provided by the department for use in all participating
			 schools in the state including the grades three to eight English language arts,
			 mathematics and science tests, high school
			 end-of-course examinations, Ohio graduation tests, diagnostic tests,
			 alternate assessments, English language proficiency assessment, kindergarten
			 readiness assessment, or early learning assessments.