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. (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, of a test subject used by
any test score recipient.
(b) "Commission" means the California Postsecondary Education
Commission.
(c) "Standardized test" or "test" means any test administered in
California at the expense of the test subject which is used for the
purposes of admission to, or class placement in, postsecondary
educational institutions or their programs, or any test used for
preliminary preparation for those tests.
"Standardized test" or "test" includes, but is not limited to, the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, the Scholastic Aptitude Test,
the College Board Achievement Tests and Advanced Placement Tests, the
ACT Assessment, the Graduate Record Examination, the Medical College
Admission Test, the Law School Admission Test, the Dental Admission
Testing Program, the Graduate Management Admission Test, and the
Miller Analogies Test.
The standardized test does not include a test, or part of a test,
which has been in use for less than five years, or which is
administered to a selected group of individuals principally for
research, pre-test, equating, guidance, counseling, or for the
purposes of meeting graduation requirements of secondary schools and
postsecondary educational institutions.
Tests which are administered as supplements or auxiliaries to
another test, or which form a specialized component of a test, may be
combined for the purposes of this chapter.
(d) "Secure test" means any test which contains items not
available to the public and which, to allow the further use of test
items and to protect the validity and reliability of the test, is
subject to special security procedures in its publication,
distribution, and administration.
(e) "Test subject" or "subject" means an individual who takes a
standardized test.
(f) "Test sponsor" or "test agency" means an individual,
partnership, corporation, association, company, firm, institution,
society, trust, or joint stock company which develops, sponsors, or
administers standardized tests.
(g) "Testing year" means the 12 calendar months which the test
agency considers either its operational cycle or its fiscal year.
(h) "Test score" or "score" means the value given to the test
subject's performance on a standardized test, administered by the
test agency, whether reported in numerical, percentile, or any other
form.
(i) "Test score recipient" means any person, organization,
association, corporation, postsecondary education institution, or
governmental agency or subdivision to which the test subject requests
or designates that a test agency report a test score.
(j) "Score reporting service" means the reporting of a test
subject's standardized score to a test score recipient by a test
agency.
(k) "Test preparation course" means any curriculum, course of
study, plan of instruction, or method of preparation given for a fee
which is specifically designed or constructed to prepare or improve a
test subject's score on a standardized test.
(l) "Test program" means all of the administrations of a test of
the same name during a testing year.