Current through Register Vol. XLII, No. 1, January 3, 2025
Section 17-6-14 - Maintaining Test Security14.1. Psychologists shall maintain the integrity and security of assessment-materials, assessment data, and other assessment techniques consistent with law and contractual obligations, and in adherence to this ethics code.14.2. The term assessment-materials refers to manuals, instruments, protocols, raw scores, client responses to test questions or stimuli, test questions or stimuli: psychologists' notes and recordings concerning client/patient statements and behavior during an examination; as well as responses of significant others, parents, teachers, and other third-parties to collateral assessment instrument questions or stimuli.14.3. Psychologists shall only release assessment-materials to other psychologists who are qualified to interpret such information.14.4. The term assessment-data refers to T-scores, standard-scores, index-scores, IQ-scores, scaled scores and similar scores. The term assessment-data does not include raw scores.14.5. In their reports psychologists include assessment-data sufficient that evaluation results may be explained.14.6. Pursuant to a client/patient release, psychologists provide test data to the client/patient or other persons identified in the release.14.7. Psychologists shall refrain from releasing assessment-data to protect a client/patient or others from substantial harm or misuse or misrepresentation of the data or the test, recognizing that in many instances release of confidential information under these circumstances is regulated by law.14.8. In the absence of a client/patient release, psychologists provide test data only as required by law or court order.