R277-404-8. Public Education Employee Compliance with Assessment Requirements, Protocols, and Security

  (1) An educator, test administrator or proctor, administrator, or school employee may not:

  (a) provide a student directly or indirectly with a specific question, answer, or the content of any specific item in a statewide assessment prior to assessment administration;

  (b) download, copy, print, take a picture of, or make any facsimile of protected assessment material prior to, during, or after assessment administration without express permission of the Superintendent and an LEA administrator;

  (c) change, alter, or amend any student online or paper response answer or any other statewide material at any time in a way that alters the student's intended response;

  (d) use any prior form of any statewide assessment, including pilot assessment materials, that the Superintendent has not released in assessment preparation without express permission of the Superintendent and an LEA administrator;

  (e) violate any specific assessment administrative procedure specified in the assessment administration manual, violate any state or LEA statewide assessment policy or procedure, or violate any procedure specified in the Standard Test Administration and Testing Ethics Policy;

  (f) fail to administer a statewide assessment;

  (g) fail to administer a statewide assessment within the designated assessment window;

  (h) submit falsified data;

  (i) allow a student to copy, reproduce, or photograph an assessment item or component; or

  (j) knowingly do anything that would affect the security, validity, or reliability of statewide assessment scores of any individual student, class, or school.

  (2) A school employee shall promptly report an assessment violation or irregularity to a building administrator, an LEA superintendent or director, or the Superintendent.

  (3) An educator who violates this rule or an assessment protocol is subject to Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission or Board disciplinary action consistent with R277-515.

  (4) All assessment material, questions, and student responses for required assessments is designated protected, consistent with Section 63G-2-305, until released by the Superintendent.

  (5)(a) Each LEA shall ensure that all assessment content is secured so that only authorized personnel have access and that assessment materials are returned to Superintendent following testing, as required by the Superintendent.

  (b) An individual educator or school employee may not retain or distribute test materials, in either paper or electronic form, for purposes inconsistent with ethical test administration or beyond the time period allowed for test administration.