Ala. Admin. Code r. 364-X-8-.08

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 364-X-8-.08 - Challenges And Appeals To Professional Licensure Examination Tests

(1) The Alabama Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists, in agreement with the National Association of State Boards of Geologists (ASBOG), abides by the conditions and procedures as outlined in the examination contract between the Board and ASBOG. The Board, in using the ASBOG examinations, Fundamentals of Geology and Practice of Geology, has agreed to follow the suggested guidelines as provided in Sections 7 and 8 of the ASBOG Examination Contract. Those provisions are as follows:

Section 7.Appeals of Examination Results.

(a) Any appeals by candidates of the Examination shall be made directly to the Member Board.

(b) ASBOG will maintain a copy of the Examination for the purpose of legal review. In the event of a statutory appeal from a decision of the MEMBER BOARD, ASBOG, upon written request of the MEMBER BOARD, shall:

(1) manually re-score or re-grade answer sheets of any of the Examinations for a period of up to 90 days after the release of the Examination grades by the MEMBER BOARD; and

(2) promptly deliver, along with the above-referenced manually graded answer sheet(s), (via secured, traceable means) a copy of the Examination and related reference materials. The examination(s) and reference materials shall be returned by MEMBER BOARD (via secured, traceable means) to ASBOG promptly upon conclusion of appeal.

(c) ASBOG shall further respond to requests from the MEMBER BOARD for assistance with respect to challenges to the Examination by providing the MEMBER BOARD with written documentation that describes a statistical performance of examinations.

Section 8.Retention of Records. ASBOG shall retain scores, copies of the Examinations, scoring keys and the examination candidate's original answer sheet for a period of three (3) years after the Examinations are given by the MEMBER BOARD. In the event the MEMBER BOARD wants the above-stated documents retained for a period in excess of three (3) years from the date of Examinations are given, the MEMBER BOARD shall provide written notice of this request to ASBOG at least ninety (90) days prior to the end of the retention period.

(2) The Board will not accept challenges or request for appeal from individual examinees as to the results of the examination, if the examinee has a grade of less than 65. Challenges with a score of 65 to 69, when appealing the test score results, may review the examination and select no more than a total of six questions for comprehensive review. If, after review, the challenger still has not achieved a passing score of 70, no further challenge or appeal will be allowed for that particular examination. If the challenger is successful, the test may be re-scored. If the re-score examination is 70, the Board shall pass the examinee.

(3) Questions and challenges directed toward the methodology of preparation and grading of the examinations are to be directed to ASBOG and not to the Board. Scoring statistics of individual examinations are available to the Board upon request.

(4) All costs incurred in a challenge or appeal are to be borne by the challenger. An administrative fee of $100.00 per challenge or appeal must be submitted to the Board in order to initiate a challenge for review. All costs above the administrative fee are to be paid directly to ASBOG as prescribed by ASBOG. Under no circumstances will any part of the Administrative fee be waived or returned to the challenger.

Author: Thornton L. Neathery

Ala. Admin. Code r. 364-X-8-.08

New Rule: Filed March 5, 2002; effective April 9, 2002.

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 34-41-15.