Canceling Your Test Results

If after taking a test you do not want your test results reported or you feel that you did not perform as well as you could have, you may cancel your test results. Evaluation Systems will cancel your test results upon receipt of

• a completed Score Cancellation Form (available at the test site); or
  
  
• a written request. (Include your name, your signature, the last five digits of your social security number, your MTEL identification number, your date of birth, the test date, and the test[s] for which you wish to have your test results canceled. For the Communication and Literacy Skills test and the Vocational Technical Literacy Skills Test, you must indicate which subtest results—reading, writing, or both—you wish to cancel. Starting with the March 7, 2009, test administration, you must indicate which subtest results—multi-subject, mathematics, or both—you wish to cancel for the General Curriculum test.)

Your cancellation request must be received at Evaluation Systems within seven days of the date on which you took the test. If you choose to cancel your test results, you will not receive a refund or credit of any kind.

If you request that your test results be canceled, your test performance will not be reported to you, to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or to any Massachusetts institution. Your test results will not be entered into any MTEL records; therefore, after the cancellation of your test results, you will not be able to have your test results reported for any purpose.


Voiding of Test Results by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education or Evaluation Systems

If you violate one of the Rules of Test Participation or if doubts are raised about the validity or legitimacy of your registration or your test results, Evaluation Systems will notify the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and other parties as deemed appropriate by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Evaluation Systems takes reasonable security precautions in developing and administering MTEL tests and in processing test results. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Evaluation Systems reserve the right to void your test results if in their sole opinion there is adequate reason to question your test results’ validity or legitimacy, due to misconduct (including, but not limited to, a violation of the rules set forth in the current registration bulletin, including the Rules of Test Participation, and the rules communicated to you, orally or in writing, at the test administration) or to circumstances within or beyond your control.

Further action may be taken, including denying, revoking, and/or suspending an educator license. Other actions, as described in Rule 1 of the Rules of Test Participation, may be taken as deemed appropriate by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and/or Evaluation Systems.

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