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22 TAC 463.21
The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists proposes
amendments to 463.21, Board Members as Reviewers of
Examinations. The amendments are being proposed to make
grammatical corrections to the rule.
Sherry L. Lee, Executive Director, has determined that for the
first five-year period the amendments will be in effect there will
be no fiscal implications for state or local government as a result
of enforcing or administering the proposed amendments.
Ms. Lee also has determined that for each year of the first five
years the rule is in effect the public benefit anticipated as a result
of enforcing the rule will be to help the Board protect the public.
There will be no effect on small businesses. There is no antici-
pated economic cost to persons who are required to comply with
the rule as proposed.
Comments on the proposal may be submitted to Brenda
Skiff, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, 333
Guadalupe, Suite 2-450, Austin, TX 78701, (512) 305-7700.
The amendments are proposed under Texas Occupations Code,
Title 3, Subtitle I, Chapter 501, which provides the Texas State
Board of Examiners of Psychologists with the authority to make
all rules, not inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of this
State, which are reasonably necessary for the proper perfor-
mance of its duties and regulations of proceedings before it.
No other code, articles or statutes are affected by this section.
463.21. Board Members as Reviewers of Examinations.
All Board members serve as reviewers of written and oral examina-
tion materials and procedures unless a [except any] member [who] is
matriculated [him er herself matriculating] in a graduate program in
psychology or is related within the second degree of affinity or within
the second degree of consanguinity to a person who matriculated [is
matriculating] in a graduate program in psychology.
This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal author-
ity to adopt.
Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on February 14,
2008.
TRD-200800906
Sherry L. Lee
Executive Director
Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists
Earliest possible date of adoption: March 30, 2008
For further information, please call: (512) 305-7706
22 TAC 463.24
The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists proposes
amendments to 463.24, Oral Examination Work Group. The
amendments are being proposed to make grammatical correc-
tions to the rule.
Sherry L. Lee, Executive Director, has determined that for the
first five-year period the amendments will be in effect there will
be no fiscal implications for state or local government as a result
of enforcing or administering the proposed amendments.
Ms. Lee also has determined that for each year of the first five
years the rule is in effect the public benefit anticipated as a resultof enforcing the rule will be to help the Board protect the public.
There will be no effect on small businesses. There is no antici-
pated economic cost to persons who are required to comply with
the rule as proposed.
Comments on the proposal may be submitted to Brenda
Skiff, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, 333
Guadalupe, Suite 2-450, Austin, TX 78701, (512) 305-7700.
The amendments are proposed under Texas Occupations Code,
Title 3, Subtitle I, Chapter 501, which provides the Texas State
Board of Examiners of Psychologists with the authority to make
all rules, not inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of this
State, which are reasonably necessary for the proper perfor-
mance of its duties and regulations of proceedings before it.
No other code, articles or statutes are affected by this section.
463.24. Oral Examination Work Group.
(a) The Board establishes a work group of oral examination
consultants for the purpose of improving the consistency of the admin-
istration and the objectivity of the examination. Qualifications of the
consultants are set by Board rule 463.23 of this title (relating to Cri-
teria for Examination Consultants). Members of the work group must
be approved by the Board [board] or its designee.
(b) The work group will include persons interested in or af-
fected by the regulation of the practice of psychology, including fac-
ulty members of college or university psychology departments and li-
censees with varying levels of experience.
(c) The work group shall:
(1) review audiotapes of passed or failed examinations;
(2) review analyses of the performance of persons who
failed the examination provided under 501.256(e) of the Act;
(3) assess scoring criteria and clinical scenarios used in the
administration of the examination;
(4) recommend improvements to standardize the adminis-
tration of the examination; and
(5) conduct other appropriate tasks.
(d) The Chair of the Work Group will be appointed by the
Board from among the consultants. The Chair will call the meetings of
the consultants and direct the work group's activities.
(e) The Chair of the Board's Oral Examination Committee will
serve as the Board's liaison to the oral examination work group. This
Board member will communicate the mission, goals and tasks to the
work group. This Board member will serve as a resource to the work
group but will not directly participate in the evaluation of the oral ex-
amination. This Board member will be responsible for ensuring that
the recommendations of the work group approved by the Board are
implemented.
(f) The work group will report at least biennially to the Board
[board] the group's recommendations for improving the consistency of
the administration and objectivity of the oral examination. The Board
[board] will modify the oral examination, as necessary, based on the
work group's recommendations for the next administration of the oral
examination.
(g) The first report of the work group must be submitted to the
Board [board] no later than January 2006. Necessary modifications to
the oral examination based on the recommendations of the work group
must be made to the exam by the January 2007 examination.PROPOSED RULES February 29, 2008
33 TexReg 1731
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