§ 12-245-232 — Minimum standards for testing

Colorado § 12-245-232

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 12: Professions
• Art.: Mental Health

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(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.

Legislative History

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.