Section Ed 1020.12 - Raters(a) Each team of raters shall be comprised of 2 raters who can hear and 2 raters who are deaf or hard of hearing. Raters who can hear shall possess a valid certification from RID or the NAD level V. The program for the deaf and hard of hearing shall solicit applicants from certified interpreters and the deaf community. Selection shall be made by the program for the deaf and hard of hearing based on skill level, availability, and experience.(b) The program for the deaf and hard of hearing shall provide rater training for new raters. New raters shall complete the rater training, which shall consist of instruction and materials on the principles of interpreter classification evaluation, practice tapes, and inter-rater reliability data.(c) A rater shall not have a conflict of interest regarding the person to be rated. A conflict of interest shall be deemed to exist if the person to be rated is a member of the rater's immediate family which shall mean the rater's spouse, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sibling, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, or child, or anyone related to the rater by blood or marriage and living in the same household as the rater. The rater shall disclose any other circumstances which create a conflict of interest as to a particular person, and shall withdraw as a rater for that person. The rater shall also disclose to the coordinator any circumstances likely to create the appearance of a conflict of interest.(d) Scoring by raters shall be done as follows: (1) For the part I-interview portion of the test, the applicant shall be rated by both deaf and hard of hearing raters and raters who can hear; and(2) For the part II- performance portion of the test, the raters who can hear shall score primarily the ASL-to-English components of the evaluation and the deaf or hard of hearing raters shall score primarily the English-to-ASL components of the evaluation.(e) Raters shall receive the rater stipend from the interpreter classification fund for scoring each applicant and to receive payment, raters shall submit an invoice, which shall include the rater's name, address, name of applicant, and date of rating.(f) All documents, paperwork, and digital media shall be sent back to the coordinator for record keeping to ensure the applicant's confidentiality.N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 1020.12
Derived from Volume XLI Number 32, Filed August 12, 2021, Proposed by #13231, Effective 7/13/2021, Expires 7/13/2031