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BILL NUMBER:S4882
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to the disclosure of standardized test scores
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to require testing agencies to provide test subjects, who do not sign a waiver electing not to receive such information, with a copy of the test questions used to calculate the test subject's raw score, a copy of the test subject's answer sheet, or answer record where there is no answer sheet, together with a copy of the corrected answer sheet to the same test with questions used to calculate the test subject's raw score so marked; and a statement of the raw score used to calculate the score reported to the test subject.
Summary of provisions
Subdivision 2 of section 342 of the education law, as added by chapter 813 of the laws of 1980, the closing paragraph as amended by chapter 565 of the laws of 1986, is amended and a new subdivision 2-a is added.
Justification
Under current law, the testing agency is only required to provide test subjects with a copy of the test questions, a copy of the test subject's answer sheet or answer record, together with a copy of the corrected answer sheet, when the test subject requests that information. This bill is written to facilitate the test subjects acquisition of such information, to which they are entitled under current law, but have to pay for and specifically request at a later time. Many of these standardized tests are crucial to the test subjects future and often, the test subject is unaware of his/her right to receive the aforementioned information. This bill will require test agencies to inform test subjects of this right, by providing a waiver both at the time the test subject registers to take a test and at the time the test agency reports the scores to the test subject; unless such waiver is provided during the test administration. A test subject who signs a waiver choosing not to receive such information will be held to that decision and the information will only be made available to said test subject where extenuating circumstances exist.
Legislative history
2009-10: S.1444 2007-08: S.4154 2003-04: S.1691
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become law.
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