Section 340.1101. Definitions.

Rule 1. As used in these rules:

(a)     "Personality tests" means instruments designed primarily to assess behavior characteristics of individuals other than the characteristics of aptitude, interest, achievement or  intelligence.   Such  instruments  are developed in accordance   with some theory of personality and may be categorized as being "projective" or "nonprojective."

(b)   "Projective personality tests" means instruments   based  on  the assumption that the responses to unstructured material provide for helpful inferences about personality and behavior. Examples of such unstructured stimuli may include pictures, inkblots, incomplete sentences, and  similar materials.

(c)   "Nonprojective personality tests" means instruments based on the assumption that responses to written questions provide helpful inferences about personality and behavior. Although such tests are commonly referred to as personality scales, personality inventories, tests of social adjustment or personality check lists, the purpose, design and contents of the tests, as heretofore indicated, are the determinants in identifying these from among such tests as interest, achievement, mental capacity or intelligence tests which are not within the provisions of section 270a of Act No. 269 of the Public Acts of 1955, as added by Act No. 305 of the Public Acts of 1967, being SS340.270a of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(d)   "School project or part of a school program" means any activity under the sponsorship, supervision, or authorization  of   the  school district, or intermediate school district, even though the pupils may attend a nonpublic school primarily or a public school on a part-time basis only. School districts offering personality tests may offer  such tests to other nonpublic school pupils.

(e)   "Circumstances of test administration" means those situations which must exist as a condition leading to a decision that a test or a battery of tests should be administered to any pupil covered by subdivision  (d).

(f)   "Administrator of a test" means the individual who presents the test material and supervises the responses to it.

(g)    "Test interpreter" means the individual who interprets the responses to the test whether or not he is the administrator of it.

History: 1979 AC.