New York Education Law Article 7-A - STANDARDIZED TESTING

• 340 - Definitions.
  As used in this article: 1. "Standardized test" or "test" means any test that is given in New York at the expense of the test...
• 341 - Background Reports.
  1. Whenever any test agency prepares or causes to have prepared research which is used in any study, evaluation or statistical report pertaining to a...
• 341-a - Standardized Testing; Reports.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section and section three hundred forty-six-a of this article, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:...
• 342 - Disclosure of Test Contents.
  1. Within thirty days after the results of any standardized test are released, the test agency shall file or cause to be filed with the...
• 342-a - Special Administrations.
  1. When regular test administrations are given on days of religious observance which prevent attendance by test subjects at such regular administrations special administrations shall...
• 343 - Notice.
  1. Each test agency shall provide, along with the registration form or score report for a test, the following information: a. the purposes for which...
• 344 - Disclosure of Test Scores.
  The score of any test subject shall not be released or disclosed by the test agency to any person, organization, corporation, association, college, university, or...
• 344-a - Pretest Questions.
  The test agency shall cooperate with a study conducted under the auspices of the National Research Council of the effects of pretesting on test subjects'...
• 344-b - Due Process.
  Each test agency shall ensure due process protection of test subjects whose scores are being questioned for suspected inauthenticity or irregularity in test administration. 1....
• 344-c - Additional Test Subject Rights.
  A test subject who must retake a test because of an error by the test agency, may not be charged for taking the retest.
• 345 - Regulations.
  The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this article.
• 346 - Test Subject Review of Computerized Test.
  Beginning in the test year two thousand, a test agency which administered a computerized test in test year nineteen hundred ninety-four shall offer test subjects...
• 346-a - Advisory Committee.
  1. There shall be created a temporary committee to advise the legislature and make findings and recommendations with respect to the effect of standardized tests...
• 347 - Violations.
  Any test agency which violates any section of this article shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for...
• 348 - Severability.
  If any provision of this article shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions shall remain in effect notwithstanding.

Last modified: February 3, 2019