Colorado § 12-245-232 - Minimum standards for testing.

§ 12-245-232. Minimum standards for testing.

(1) Every person licensed, registered, or certified under this article 245 must meet the minimum professional preparation standards set forth in this section to engage in the administration, scoring, or interpretation of the following levels of psychometric or electrodiagnostic testing:

(a) General use. There is no educational or experience minimum necessary for a licensee, registrant, or certificate holder to administer standardized personnel selection, achievement, general aptitude, or proficiency tests.

(b) Technical use. A master's degree in anthropology, psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, or sociology from a regionally accredited university or college certified by the accrediting agency or body to award graduate degrees and completion of at least one graduate level course each in statistics, psychometric measurement, theories of personality, individual and group test administration and interpretation, and psychopathology is required in order to administer, score, or interpret tests that require technical knowledge of test construction and use or require the application of scientific and psychophysiological knowledge. The tests include, but are not limited to, tests of general intelligence, special aptitudes, temperament, values, interests, and personality inventories.

(c) Advanced use. A licensee, registrant, or certificate holder must meet all the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of this section and, in addition, completion, at a regionally accredited university or college certified by the accrediting agency or body to award graduate degrees, of at least one graduate-level course in six of the following areas: Cognition, emotion, attention, sensory-perceptual function, psychopathology, learning, encephalopathy, neuropsychology, psychophysiology, personality, growth and development, projective testing, and neuropsychological testing and completion of one year of experience in advanced use practice under the supervision of a person fully qualified under this subsection (1)(c) in order to practice projective testing, neuropsychological testing, or use of a battery of three or more tests to:

(I) Determine the presence, nature, causation, or extent of psychosis, dementia diseases and related disabilities, amnesia, cognitive impairment, influence of deficits on competence, and ability to function adaptively;

(II) Determine the etiology or causative factors contributing to psychological dysfunction, criminal behavior, vocational disability, neurocognitive dysfunction, or competence; or

(III) Predict the psychological responses to specific medical, surgical, and behavioral interventions.

(2) The board licensing, registering, or certifying any person violating this section may bring disciplinary proceedings or injunctive proceedings against the person pursuant to section 12-245-226 or 12-245-230.

(3) The testing required pursuant to this section may be administered by a qualified psychometrician or student trainee working under the direct supervision of a licensee who meets the requirements in this section.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1255, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2024: (3) added, (SB 24-115), ch. 217, p. 1346, § 2, effective August 7.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-43-228 as it existed prior to 2019.