Texas Education Code - Section 21.048. Certification Examinations
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§ 21.048. CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS. (a) The board
shall propose rules prescribing comprehensive examinations for
each class of certificate issued by the board.
(b) The board may not administer a written examination to
determine the competence or level of performance of an educator who
has a hearing impairment unless the examination has been field
tested to determine its appropriateness, reliability, and validity
as applied to, and minimum acceptable performance scores for,
persons with hearing impairments.
(c) An educator who has a hearing impairment is exempt from
taking a written examination for a period ending on the first
anniversary of the date on which the board determines, on the basis
of appropriate field tests, that the examination complies with the
standards specified in Subsection (b). On application to the
board, the board shall issue a temporary exemption certificate to a
person entitled to an exemption under this subsection.
(d) In this section:
(1) "Hearing impairment" means a hearing impairment so
severe that the person cannot process linguistic information with
or without amplification.
(2) "Reliability" means the extent to which an
experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on
repeated trials.
(3) "Validity" means being:
(A) well-grounded or justifiable;
(B) relevant and meaningful;
(C) correctly derived from premises or
inferences; and
(D) supported by objective truth or generally
accepted authority.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Section: 21.041 21.042 21.043 21.044 21.045 21.046 21.047 21.048 21.0481 21.0482 21.0483 21.0484 21.049 21.050 21.051
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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