511 Ind. Admin. Code 5-1-1

Current through December 12, 2024
Section 511 IAC 5-1-1 - Definitions

Authority: IC 20-20-6-3

Affected: IC 20-33-2-4; IC 20-33-2-6

Sec. 1.

(a) The definitions in this section apply throughout this rule.
(b) "State of Indiana general educational development (GED) diploma" means the state credential issued to a qualified applicant who meets the requirements of IC 20-20-6-1[IC 20-20-6 was repealed by P.L. 7-2011, SECTION 26, effective April 1, 2011.]and this rule.
(c) "Tests of general educational development" or "GED" means the test battery, published by the General Educational Development Testing Service of the American Council on Education, which is designed to:
(1) measure the major outcomes and concepts generally associated with four (4) years of high school education; and
(2) access high school graduation equivalency for individuals who did not complete a formal high school program of instruction.
(d) "GED practice test" means an instrument that is acknowledged to provide information regarding the potential of a person to pass the GED.
(e) "Compulsory school attendance" means the requirements of IC 20-33-2-4.
(f) "Exit interview" means the process described in IC 20-33-2-6(a)(3).
(g) "School corporation" means any public school corporation established by and under the laws of Indiana. The term includes, but is not necessarily limited to, any:
(1) school city;
(2) school town;
(3) school township;
(4) consolidated school corporation;
(5) metropolitan school district;
(6) township school corporation;
(7) county school corporation;
(8) united school corporation; or
(9) community school corporation.

511 IAC 5-1-1

Indiana State Board of Education; 511 IAC 5-1-1; filed Feb 13, 1980, 11:30 a.m.: 3 IR 328; filed Oct 26, 1983, 9:11 a.m.: 7 IR 45; filed Feb 13, 1989, 9:30 a.m.: 12 IR 1507; filed Oct 10, 1997, 10:20 a.m.: 21 IR 382; readopted filed Jul 23, 2003, 10:15 a.m.: 26 IR 3960; errata filed Jul 11, 2005, 10:00 a.m.: 28 IR 3306

Transferred from the Commission on General Education ( 510 IAC 10-1.1-1) to the Indiana State Board of Education ( 511 IAC 5-1-1) by P.L. 20-1984, SECTION 206, effective July 1, 1984.