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Subchapter 6. California High School Exit Examination. Article 1. General. Definitions.
For the purposes of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE), the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Accommodations" means any variation in the assessment environment or process that does not fundamentally alter what the test measures or affect the comparability of scores.
(b) "CDE" is the California Department of Education.
(c) "District coordinator" is an employee of the school district designated by the superintendent of the district to oversee the administration of the CAHSEE within the district.
(d) "Eligible adult student" is a person enrolled in an adult school operated by a school district who is working to attain a high school diploma and has not passed both the English-language arts section and the mathematics section of the CAHSEE. This term does not include pupils who are concurrently enrolled in high school and adult school.
(e) "Eligible pupil" is a person enrolled in a California public school in grade 10, 11, or 12, including those pupils placed in a nonpublic school through the individualized education program (IEP) process pursuant to Education Code section 56365, who has not passed both the English-language arts section and the mathematics section of the CAHSEE.
(f) "Excessive materials" is the difference between the sum of the number of tests scored and 80 percent of the tests ordered by the school district for the entire school year. The difference must be greater than 100 to be "excessive materials."
(g) "Grade" for the purposes of the CAHSEE means the grade assigned to the pupil by the school district at the time of testing.
(h) "Grade 10 census administration" is the administration of the CAHSEE during which all eligible pupils in grade 10 are to take the CAHSEE.
(i) "Modification" means any variation in the assessment environment or process that fundamentally alters what the test measures or affects the comparability of scores.
(j) "Nonpublic school (NPS)" is a nonpublic, nonsectarian school as defined in California Education Code section 56034.
(k) "Opportunity" shall refer to a chance an eligible pupil or eligible adult student is provided to take the section(s) of the CAHSEE not yet passed.
(l) "RFEP" means reclassified fluent English proficient.
(m) "School district" includes unified and high school districts, county offices of education, any charter school that for assessment purposes does not elect to be part of the school district or county office of education that granted the charter, any statewide benefit charter, and any other charter school chartered by the State Board of Education (SBE).
(n) "Scribe" is an employee of the school district, or a person assigned by a nonpublic school to implement a pupil's IEP who has signed a Test Security Affidavit as identified in section 1211.5(d) and is required to transcribe an eligible pupil's or eligible adult student's responses to the format required by the CAHSEE. A pupil's parent or guardian is not eligible to be the pupil's scribe.
(o) "Section," "portion," and "part(s)" of the CAHSEE shall refer to either the English-language arts section of the CAHSEE or the mathematics section of the high school exit CAHSEE.
(p) "Significant medical emergency" is a significant accident, trauma, or illness (mental or physical) that precludes a pupil in grade 10 from taking the CAHSEE. An accident, trauma or illness is significant if the pupil has been determined by a licensed physician to be unable to participate in the CAHSEE.
(q) "Test administration" is the period of time starting with the delivery of the secure testing materials to the district and ending with the return shipment of materials to the test contractor, and includes the period of time during which eligible pupils or eligible adult students take one or both sections of the CAHSEE.
(r) "Test examiner" is an employee of the school district or an employee of a nonpublic school who has been assigned to implement the pupil's IEP, who has signed a Test Security Affidavit as identified in section 1211.5(d) and has received training specifically designed to prepare him or her to administer the CAHSEE.
(s) "Test materials" are materials necessary to administer the CAHSEE, including but not limited to test manuals, pupil test booklets, answer documents, special test versions, and other materials developed and provided by the test contractor.
(t) "Test proctor" is an employee of the school district or an employee of a nonpublic school who has been assigned to implement the pupil's IEP, who has signed a Test Security Affidavit as identified in section 1211.5(d) and has received training specifically designed to prepare him or her to assist the test examiner in administration of the CAHSEE.
(u) "Test site coordinator" is an employee of the school district designated by the district coordinator or the superintendent or a person assigned by a nonpublic school to implement a student's IEP who oversees the administration of the CAHSEE at each test site at which the CAHSEE is given.
(v) "Translator" is a person who has been assigned to translate the test directions into the pupil's primary language pursuant to section 1217(d), who has signed a Test Security Affidavit as identified in section 1211.5(d), and who has received training specifically designed to prepare him or her to assist the test examiner in the administration of the CAHSEE. A pupil's parent or guardian is not eligible to be the pupil's translator. A translator must be:
(1) an employee of the school district;
(2) an employee of the nonpublic school who has been assigned to implement the student's IEP; or
(3) supervised by an employee of the school district or an employee of the nonpublic school who has been assigned to implement the pupil's IEP.
(w) "Variation" is a change in the manner in which a test is presented or administered, or in how a test taker is allowed to respond, and includes, but is not limited to, accommodations and modifications as defined in Education Code section 60850.
Authority cited:
Education Code 33031
Reference:
Education Code 52504
Education Code 56365
Education Code 60850
Education Code 60851
(Amended by Register 2009, No. 45.)