California Education Code CHAPTER 3 - Standardized Tests

• Section 99150.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that:(1) Education is fundamental to the development of all residents and to the progress of the state as a whole.(2) Standardized tests...
• Section 99151.
  (a) “Admissions data assembly service” means any summary or report of grades, grade point averages, standardized test scores, or any combination of grades and test scores,...
• Section 99152.
  Each test sponsor shall report the closing date of its testing year to the commission by February 1, 1985, or within 90 days after it...
• Section 99153.
  On or before November 15 of each year, the test sponsor shall submit to the commission all of the following data and information:(a) Three copies of...
• Section 99154.
  (a) Within 90 days of the close of each testing year, the test sponsor shall file with the commission standard technical data sufficient to describe the...
• Section 99155.
  (a) A test sponsor shall provide alternative methods to verify the identity of those test subjects who are unable to provide the required identification for purposes...
• Section 99156.
  A test agency shall prepare a clear, easily understandable written description of each standardized test it administers. A copy of the appropriate description shall be...
• Section 99157.
  (a) Within 90 days of the release to the test subject of the results of a standardized test as specified in subdivision (c), and upon the...
• Section 99158.
  If the test agency will be delayed in reporting a test subject’s score for a time period amounting to 10 calendar days beyond the period...
• Section 99159.
  (a) Whenever a test agency is presented with information which renders the test subject’s test score suspect, whether that information is in the form of allegations...
• Section 99160.
  (a) Whenever the test agency determines that substantial evidence exists to support cancellation or invalidation of a test score, the test agency shall provide the test...
• Section 99160.5.
  (a) A test agency shall immediately initiate an investigation upon learning of a complaint or a notice of inadequate or improper test conditions relating to an...
• Section 99161.
  (a) No test agency shall release or disclose any test score identifiable with any individual test subject, in any form whatsoever, to any test score recipient,...
• Section 99161.5.
  (a) (1) The test sponsor of the Law School Admission Test shall provide testing accommodations to a test subject with a disability who makes a timely request...
• Section 99162.
  Any information or report required to be submitted to the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be public record subject to disclosure under the provisions...
• Section 99163.
  Any test sponsor who intentionally violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars...
• Section 99164.
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions...

Last modified: October 22, 2018