Undergraduate Testing Policy and Procedure
Exam Average:
A cumulative score of 78% or better must be achieved on all summative tests/quizzes included in the exam average before the grades from other course work will be calculated into the final grade. Grades are not rounded. For example, 77.89% does not equal 78%. It should be noted that course work may lower the course grade.
General Guidelines Exam Build:
- To improve test security, a password will be assigned to each form of testing.
- Immediately before the start of the test, provide the password to students.
- For students with accommodations, communicate the password to student support and engagement team 24 hours in advance. A standard of 1.5 minutes per item will be allocated on exams and quizzes.
- Partial credit is allowed for NGN test items only, this will not apply to multiple choice, select all that apply, or any item not associated with NGN style questions.
- Each course with a clinical component must have a minimum of 5% of the test items that reflect pharmacology questions. This does not need to include drug calculations.
Policy Statements
Testing Procedures
- In the event of an emergency, the student must notify faculty via email at least 60 minutes before the start of an exam/quiz, failure to do so will result in a score of zero for the exam/quiz.
- Students are required to be present on campus on exam days. Failure to attend an exam/quiz without prior notification to faculty will be considered a no call/no show and will result in a grade of zero for that exam.
- If a student arrives more than 5 minutes late for an exam/quiz, they will not be permitted to take the exam/quiz. The student will need to schedule a make-up test with their faculty, and the make-up policy will apply.
- Faculty will escalate any unforeseeable circumstance requiring a student’s absence to the program director for assistance.
- Students will not disclose or discuss information about the items or answers on exam/test/quiz unless it is during a formal assessment review with the course faculty. This includes posting or discussing questions or content on social media or via text etc.
- Books, notebooks, book bags, cell phones, ear buds, smart watches, or any other form of electronic device (excluding laptop) need to be placed on the perimeter of the testing room.
- Once the exam/quiz has started, students are not allowed to move about the room and may not leave the room until their exam/quiz is complete.
- Once as student completes an exam/quiz/ATI, the student will promptly restart their computer and close the laptop before leaving the room.
- Faculty will verify that a student has logged out of the exam/quiz following the review of their rationales.
- Leaving the room prior to completion will result in the termination of the exams/quiz and the grade earned up to that point will be recorded in the gradebook.
- Faculty will actively monitor students continuously to deter cheating.
- During the exam, students are not permitted to ask any questions of faculty related to the exams/quiz items. Only technology issues/requests are permitted.
Online Testing:
- Virtual testing will be allowed only for online courses and/or in the event the college is closed for extenuating circumstances.
- Respondus monitor will be enabled for all online testing regardless of circumstance or online courses to support integrity of exams.
Accommodations:
- Students are responsible for presenting an accommodation letter to faculty the first week of the term. Accommodations will not be applied retroactively.
- It is the faculty’s responsibility to schedule assessments requiring accommodation with the student support and engagement team once the accommodation letter is received.
- It is imperative that faculty maintain the privacy of students with accommodations.
- Course content will not be delivered on the day that an exam/ATI is schedule, if the class is scheduled for less than 3 hours.
Make-up Tests:
- Make-up exams/quizzes will be given by appointment only and arranged with course faculty.
- Make-up exams/quizzes will not be given after one week from the original test date. After one week, a zero will be entered for the grade.
- Make-up exams/quizzes will not be the same as the original exam/quiz and may be given in a different format from the original exam/quiz. Make-up exams/quizzes will be at least 50% different from the original exam/quiz.
- There will be an automatic 5% score deduction on the student’s first occurrence of a make-up exam/quizzes. (e.g. if a student earns a 95% the score will be reduced to 90%)
- There will be an automatic 10% score deduction on the student’s second occurrence of a make-up exam/quizzes. (e.g. if a student earns a 95% the score will be reduced to 85%)
- On the third occurrence, the student will be given an automatic score of zero (which may result in failure of the course).
Grounds for Program Dismissal or Cancellation of Results:
- A student against whom an allegation of cheating has been made and found to be true will not be allowed to take the exam/quiz and/or finish the exam/quiz.
- Faculty will notify the Program Director, Assistant Dean, and Dean for investigation. Further action may include receiving a zero on the exam/quiz, failure of the course, and/or dismissal from the college.
- Students may not duplicate exam/quiz questions or content by any method.
- Screen recording is prohibited during exams/quizzes