New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 10 - PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION - PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS
Part 7 - STANDARDIZED TESTING PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS
Section 6.10.7.12 - PROCEDURES FOR STANDARDIZED TESTING

(1) Standardized test material, including student test tickets for online testing, shall be counted, inventoried, and stored in a secure, locked location with limited access.

(2) Space permitting, standardized test material shall be stored in sealed containers in a secure area.

(3) Standardized test materials, as directed by the department, shall be disposed of by either shredding or returning such materials to the test vendor.

(4) Virtual programs shall document a chain of custody that includes secure storage and handling of all test administration equipment and materials from the designated delivery of vendor materials to the designated testing locations of all students eligible for testing.

(1) Access to standardized test materials, including student test tickets for on-site, online testing, shall be restricted, limited, and controlled.

(2) Personnel with access to standardized test materials shall be designated by the superintendent or charter administrator.

(3) The removal of standardized test materials from their secure, locked location for the purposes of test administration and submittal at the close of the test administration window shall be logged and recorded. Records shall:

(1) Only licensed school instructors, counselors, student success advisors, administrators, and instructional support providers shall administer a standardized test.

(2) Substitutes, educational assistants, school nurses, and coaches shall not administer standardized tests unless the individual additionally holds valid licensure to serve as a teacher, counselor, student success advisor, administrator, or instructional support provider.

(3) Educational assistants may be permitted to support testing accommodations for one-on-one and small group testing under the supervision of a test administrator.

Educational assistants administering accommodations shall:

(4) Training shall be provided to all persons who administer or proctor a standardized test. Individuals shall not be permitted to administer or proctor a standardized test without first completing training in accordance with the timelines, topics, and materials designated by the department.

(5) The ratio of test administrators to students shall not exceed 25 students per test administrator.

(6) Test proctors shall be utilized to support the following:

(7) All mandatory statewide assessments, including those administered to students in fully virtual or hybrid programs, shall be administered in person, on site, by a test administrator on school premises or at an official district designated location.

(8) Test administrators shall prepare and manage the environment for on-site, in-person, online testing to ensure that students look only at their individual computers.

(1) changing a student's standardized test answers, erasing double-marked or lightly erased or lightly marked answers, or directing or suggesting that a student change a standardized test answer;

(2) providing students with a review of specific standardized test items, specific standardized test items with minor changes in settings or numbers, verbal or written restatements or paraphrasing of standardized test items, specific vocabulary from standardized test directions or standardized test items, or answers before, during or after a standardized test;

(3) discussing, photocopying, or reproducing in any other fashion including paraphrasing, any portion of a standardized test or student responses;

(4) affording any student under a standardized administration extra time to complete a timed subtest, unless permitted as an accommodation in the student's IEP, 504 plan, or English learner plan;

(5) reading standardized test items aloud to students unless required in a specific standardized test or unless required as an accommodation in the student's IEP, 504 plan, or English learner plan;

(6) permitting students during a standardized test to have on or near their desk or on their person, any unauthorized items, including scrap paper, tablets, laptop computers without secure browsers, cell phones with or without cameras, cameras, calculators, calculator watches, smart watches, media players, headphones, wireless earbuds, backpacks, and rulers unless any of these are required or permitted by standardized test instructions;

(7) permitting students to observe standardized test vocabulary words with definitions, addition or multiplication tables (in various forms), spelling words on the standardized test, or similar assistance material during the administration of the standardized test;

(8) permitting students to talk, become disruptive, or exchange any test materials;

(9) permitting students to begin a subtest, leave the testing room, and return to finish the subtest;

(10) permitting students to enter a testing room after the standardized test has already commenced;

(11) permitting standardized test material to remain unattended in an unlocked room;

(12) taking standardized test material off campus unless specifically authorized by the DTC;

(13) displaying or failing to conceal visual aids that may assist students in the testing room;

(14) administering a standardized test to immediate family members or relatives including children, stepchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews, or grandchildren;

(15) teaching from, possessing, or in any way disseminating a photocopy or other reproduced or paraphrased standardized test or portion of a standardized test;

(16) copying copyrighted test preparation materials for the purpose of distribution;

(17) coaching or otherwise inappropriately assisting with the selection or writing of student answers; and

(18) accessing secure, online testing portals with unassigned log-in information