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California
Standardized postsecondary admission tests: a test agency may not release an identifiable test score without the test subject's authorization
Cal. Education Code section 99161
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you develop, sponsor or administer a standardized test taken in California at the test subject's expense and used for admission to, or class placement in, postsecondary educational institutions or their programs, do not release or disclose any test score identifiable with an individual test subject, in any form, to a test score recipient unless the test subject has specifically authorized you to release it to that recipient (section 99161(a)).
- You may release all scores a test subject received on a test to anyone the test subject designates, and may release scores and other information in a form that does not identify any individual test subject for research, studies and reports primarily concerning the test itself (section 99161).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The section limits release of an identifiable test score. It names no log, no record to be kept, no retention period and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Education Code section 99161(a) bars a test agency from releasing or disclosing any test score identifiable with an individual test subject, in any form, to a test score recipient unless the test subject has specifically authorized the release to that recipient.
A standardized test under the chapter is a test administered in California at the expense of the test subject and used for admission to, or class placement in, postsecondary educational institutions or their programs, or for preliminary preparation for those tests. A test agency is an individual, partnership, corporation, association, company, firm, institution, society, trust or joint stock company that develops, sponsors or administers standardized tests.
Section 99161(b) lets a test agency release test scores and other information in a form that does not identify any individual test subject for research, studies and reports primarily concerning the test itself.
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