ICVA’s Right to Cancel, Invalidate and Withhold Scores

 

The ICVA is committed to reporting valid examination scores that accurately reflect Candidate performance on the NAVLE^®. For this reason, ICVA maintains test administration, security and scoring standards designed to ensure that all Candidates are given the same opportunity to demonstrate their abilities, and that no Candidate obtains an unfair advantage on any NAVLE. ICVA reserves the right to conduct psychometric and statistical analyses of NAVLE administration and Candidate response data and scores to identify potential violations and to ensure score validity. ICVA may, in its sole discretion, cancel, invalidate or withhold NAVLE scores if any psychometric or statistical analysis provides a reasonable basis to question the NAVLE score’s validity.

ICVA reserves the right to cancel, invalidate or withhold any NAVLE score if, in its sole judgment:

1. there is a reasonable basis to question the exam score’s validity; or
2. a testing violations occurred before, during, or after the administration of the NAVLE that could impact the validity of any NAVLE score; or
3. a Candidate violated the terms of the NAVLE Candidate Agreement.

 

If ICVA cancels or invalidates an exam score because there is a reasonable basis to question the exam score’s validity, ICVA is not obligated to further investigate the matter or to determine whether a violation of the NAVLE Candidate Agreement has occurred. ICVA may simply cancel or invalidate the score and provide the impacted Candidate with another opportunity to take the NAVLE at issue. No Candidate is entitled to appeal ICVA’s decision to cancel, invalidate or delay a score where ICVA’s action is limited to such cancellation, invalidation or delay.

The NAVLE Exam Security Investigation and Appeal Policy shall have no applicability under any circumstances to ICVA score cancellations, invalidations, or delays carried out by ICVA solely because there is a reasonable basis to question the exam score’s validity in accordance with this provision as described above.

ICVA also has the right in its sole discretion to withhold one or more exam scores pending the outcome of an investigation related to the administration of the NAVLE that is the subject or related to the investigation, to determine whether a Candidate violated the Candidate Agreement, engaged in an exam security violation, or whether any other potential misconduct has taken place that could threaten the integrity of the NAVLE or the validity of future NAVLE scores. If ICVA is withholding a score pending investigation, ICVA shall inform the Candidate in writing that the score is being withheld and then inform the Candidate when the investigation is complete and provide the decision made by ICVA related to the exam score.