UNAR Cheating Policy
Effective Date: August 29, 2005
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Revised: September 18, 2008
April 22, 2010
July 15, 2010
August 29, 2011
1. Purpose.
To define the ZERO TOLERANCE policy for cheating on the Utah State Competency Exams for Certified Nursing Assistants.
2. Policy.
Cheating by an applicant on any examination required as a condition of obtaining a certificate shall be considered unprofessional conduct and shall result in dismissal from the current test and denial of any further testing or certification.
A. Cheating is defined as:
The use of any means of instrumentality for the benefit of an examinee to alter the results of the certification examination in any way to cause the examination results to inaccurately represent the competency of an examinee with respect to the knowledge or skills about which they are examined. Cheating includes but is not limited to:
1. Communication between examinees inside of the examination room or facility during the course of the examination;
2. Communication about the examination with anyone outside of the examination room or facility during the course of the examination;
3. Copying another examinee’s answers or looking at another examinee’s answers while an examination is in progress;
4. Permitting anyone to copy answers to the examination;
5. Substitution by an applicant or by others for the benefit of an applicant as the examinee in place of the applicant;
6. Use by an applicant of any written, audio, or video material or any other mechanism not specifically authorized during the examination for the purpose of assisting an examinee in the examination;
7. Obtaining, using, buying, selling, possession of or having access to a copy of the examination prior to administration of the examination.
3. Procedure:
A. The UNAR shall notify all proctors, test administrators, and test centers of the rules concerning cheating.
B. All applicants will be required to review and sign the test center’s policy acknowledging that they understand the definition of cheating and the penalties that will be imposed.
C. Upon determination that an applicant has cheated on an examination, the following steps will be taken:
i. The person making the cheating allegation will investigate and document the allegations in writing and forward to the UNAR along with the voucher.
ii. Upon the allegation being reported and investigated by the Utah Nursing Assistant Registry (UNAR), the UNAR will notify the applicant in writing that he/she is being denied of any future opportunity to test or to receive a certificate.
iii. The applicant may appeal the allegation through the UNAR, in writing.
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