Local Review
Except when a State examination has been administered in restricted form, students who have taken Regents Examinations, RCTs, and Second Language Proficiency Examinations and their parents have the right to review the students' answer papers after the papers have been scored and the students' grades recorded on their permanent records. Answer papers should be reviewed in the presence of the principal, or his or her designee, to ensure that the answer papers are not changed as they are being reviewed. Schools may provide copies of answer papers to students and their parents on request. If a student's answer paper has been sent to the Department, the principal should contact the Office of State Assessment and the paper will be returned to the school.
Occasionally, a student or student's parent may question the accuracy of the local rating of an answer paper. When this occurs and differences cannot be resolved at the school or district level, it is recommended that the principal arrange for the paper to be reviewed, for advisory purposes, by teachers from a neighboring school or district as obtaining feedback from neighboring teachers should help to quickly resolve any question about the accuracy of the score. Only when, in the principal's judgment, such additional review has failed to resolve the rating of the answer paper, the principal may send the answer paper to the Office of State Assessment for further review. When Department content specialist time permits, the answer paper will be re-rated and returned to the school, showing both the local rating and the Department rating. Answer papers will be rerated by the Department only at the request of a principal or a superintendent of schools and may take two or more months to complete from the date of submission.
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