New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 60 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part 5 - COMPETENCY TESTING FOR LICENSURE › Section 6.60.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "NMCKA" means
				the New Mexico content knowledge assessments, which are the teacher-tests
				approved by the PED which individuals must take and pass in order to receive
				endorsements on an initial license or as an option to add endorsements to an
				existing license in language arts, reading, mathematics, science, social
				studies, the arts (music or visual arts), modern, classical and native
				languages, (Spanish, French, German); health, physical education,
				library/media, teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), and
				family and consumer sciences, or to receive initial licensure in elementary
				education from grades K-8 or special education pre K-12.
B. "NMTA" means the New Mexico teacher
				assessments, which are the tests approved by the PED that all individuals must
				take and pass in order to receive initial educator licensure; the NMTA consists
				of the New Mexico assessment of teacher basic skills, the New Mexico assessment
				of teacher competency (at the early childhood, elementary and secondary
				levels), and the New Mexico content knowledge assessments ("NMCKA"); it shall
				include any test materials related to a testing applicant's taking of or
				registration for the NMTA.
C. "Test
				administrator" means the business entity, namely, the national evaluation
				systems, inc. or NES that developed the NMTA, administers the NMTA at testing
				centers throughout New Mexico, scores the NMTA, and reports NMTA testing
				results to the PED.
D. "Testing
				applicant" means a person who has filed an NMTA registration form with the test
				administrator, or who has not yet taken a portion of the NMTA.
E. "Testing irregularity" means any
				circumstance within or beyond the control of a testing applicant that, in the
				sole opinion of the PED or NES raises doubts about the propriety of a testing
				applicant's NMTA registration, NMTA score, or conduct during an NMTA
				test.
F. "Withheld NMTA score(s)"
				means the suspension of use by and disclosure to a testing applicant of an NMTA
				score(s) for up to 120 days upon a determination made by the PED professional
				licensure bureau director that a testing irregularity is likely to have
				occurred.
G. "Voided NMTA score(s)"
				means the cancellation, invalidation and non-disclosure of a testing applicant
				of an NMTA score(s) after a final determination of testing irregularity by the
				PED's professional licensure bureau director or by a hearing officer of the
				secretary of education.
H. "Rules
				of test participation" means any written rules in the applicable NMTA
				registration bulletin that a testing applicant has expressly agreed to comply
				with as a condition of registering for or taking the NMTA.
I. "Educator licensure application" means an
				application for any professional teaching, administrator, or instructional
				support provider license, excluding licensure for an athletic coach,
				educational assistant, or substitute teacher.
J. "Core academic subjects" language arts,
				reading, mathematics, science, modern and classical languages, except the
				Native American languages and cultures of New Mexico tribes or pueblos, the
				arts, including music and visual arts, and social studies which includes
				history, geography, economics, civics and government, and modern and classical
				languages.
K. "Highly qualified",
				under this rule, means a teacher of the core academic subjects who has met all
				license or endorsement requirements and is not teaching under an endorsement
				waiver.
L. "Specialty area
				examination" means the New Mexico specialty area assessments, which are the
				tests approved by the PED for instructional support providers and
				administrators, which identified providers must take and pass in order to
				receive licensure as instructional support providers or
				administrators.