Legal Resources | Title 5 | 1211.5
Subchapter 6. California High School Exit Examination. Article 2. High School Exit Examination Administration. California High School Exit Examination Test Security Forms.
(a) All district coordinators and test site coordinators shall sign the California High School Exit Examination Test Security Agreement set forth in subdivision (b).
(b) The California High School Exit Examination Test Security Agreement shall be as follows:
CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAMINATION TEST SECURITY AGREEMENT
(1) I will ensure that all test examiners are trained to administer the CAHSEE in compliance with the test administration manuals.
(2) I will take all necessary precautions to safeguard all test materials by limiting access to persons within the school district with a responsible, professional interest in the CAHSEE's security.
(3) I will not disclose, or allow to be disclosed, the contents of the CAHSEE.
(4) I will keep on file the names of persons having access to test materials. All persons having access to the materials shall be required to sign the California High School Exit Examination Test Security Affidavit that will be kept on file in the school district office.
(5) I will keep the test materials in a secure, locked location, limiting access to only those persons responsible for test security, except on actual testing dates as provided in California Code of Regulations, title 5, division 1, chapter 2, subchapter 6.
(6) I will not copy any part of the CAHSEE or test materials unless necessary to administer the CAHSEE pursuant to section 1215.5 or 1216.
(7) I will not review test questions, develop any scoring keys, or review or score any pupil responses except as required by the test contractor's manuals.
By signing my name to this document, I am assuring that I will abide by the above conditions.
Signed: ________________________________________
Print Name: ____________________________________
Title: _________________________________________
School District/Affiliation: ____________________
Date: __________________________________________
(c) All persons having access to the CAHSEE, including but not limited to the district coordinator, test site coordinator, test examiners, test proctors, scribes, translators and persons assigned by a nonpublic school to implement students' IEPs shall acknowledge the limited purpose of their access to the CAHSEE by signing the California High School Exit Examination Test Security Affidavit set forth in subdivision (d).
(d) The California High School Exit Examination Test Security Affidavit shall be as follows:
CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAMINATION TEST SECURITY AFFIDAVIT
I acknowledge that I will have access to test materials for the purpose of administering the CAHSEE. I understand that these materials are highly secure, and it is my professional responsibility to protect their security as follows:
(1) I will not divulge the contents of the CAHSEE to any other person through verbal, written, or any other means of communication.
(2) I will not copy any part of the test materials.
(3) I will keep the CAHSEE secure until the CAHSEE is actually distributed to eligible pupils or eligible adult students.
(4) I will limit access to the test materials by test examinees to the actual testing periods when they are taking the CAHSEE.
(5) I will collect and account for all materials following each CAHSEE and will not permit eligible pupils or eligible adult students to remove test materials from the room where testing takes place.
(6) I will not review any test questions, passages, or other test items with eligible pupils or eligible adult students before, during, or after the CAHSEE.
(7) I will return all test materials to the designated test site coordinator upon completion of the CAHSEE.
(8) I will not interfere with the independent work of any eligible pupil or eligible adult student taking the CAHSEE, and I will not compromise the security of the CAHSEE by any means including, but not limited to:
(A) Providing eligible pupils or eligible adult students with access to CAHSEE questions prior to testing.
(B) Copying, reproducing, transmitting, distributing or using in any manner inconsistent with test security all or any section of any secure test materials.
(C) Coaching eligible pupils or eligible adult students during testing or altering or interfering with the eligible pupil's or eligible adult student's responses in any way.
(D) Making answer keys available to eligible pupils or eligible adult students.
(E) Failing to follow security rules for distribution and return of secure test materials as directed, or failing to account for all secure test materials before, during, and after testing.
(F) Failing to follow test administration directions specified in test administration manuals.
(G) Participating in, directing, aiding, counseling, assisting in, or encouraging any of the acts prohibited in this section.
(9) I will administer the CAHSEE in accordance with the directions for administration set forth in the test contractor's manuals for administration of the CAHSEE.
(10) I have been trained to administer the CAHSEE.
Signed: ________________________________________
Print Name: ____________________________________
Title: _________________________________________
School District/Affiliation: ____________________
Date: __________________________________________
Authority cited:
Education Code 33031
Reference:
Education Code 60850
Education Code 60851
(Amended by Register 2009, No. 45.)