Section 49.07. Examination.

 

(1)   Test questions. The department shall develop a pool of questions related to the content of the basic intake training, including questions designed to measure knowledge of relevant statutes. The department shall select questions from the pool of questions in creating a test that court intake workers shall take at the conclusion of the instruction.

(2)   Administration of the test. An employee of the department or, at the request of the department, the person providing the training, shall administer the test at the end of the instruction part of the training, as follows:

(a) The test may not be distributed to participants until the time for testing at the end of the training;

(b) One hour shall be allowed to complete the test and that hour shall be included as part of the 30 hours of required training:

(c) Statutes and other resources may be used by training participants to complete the test, but participants shall individually complete the test;

(d) Within 2 working days after participants have completed the training, the person administering the test shall submit the tests to the department employee designated in the notice of approval of the training proposal; and

(e) The individual who administered the test shall provide the department with the following:

1. A signed statement indicating that the test was administered as specified in this subsection;

2. A list of training participants and the county or counties in which they are employed.

(3)   Evaluation and scoring of tests. Staff of the department designated by the administrator of the department's division of community services shall evaluate the responses to the test questions and shall determine the percentage of questions that each training participant has answered correctly. The department shall notify each training participant and his or her supervisor of that percentage within 20 working days after the training is completed. A training participant who has answered 70% or more of the questions correctly has passed the test; a training participant who has answered fewer than 70% of the questions correctly has failed the test.

(4)   Opportunity to successfully complete the examination. If a training participant fails the test, he or she shall be given an opportunity to respond again to only the specific questions for which erroneous responses were given on the original test. The questions that a participant failed to answer correctly shall be included with the notice of the participant's score on the original test. The participant shall have 5 working days to complete answers to the questions and to return the answers to the department. If the answers are correct, the department shall notify the participant that he or she has passed the test.

History: Cr. Register, June, 1989, No. 402 , eff. 7-1-89.