QUESTION
How does the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) exercise discretion in grading exams, and are there laws restricting this discretion?
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General Counsel Sanford Cohen clarifies that the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) finds the laws governing exam grading fairly flexible, allowing for adaptability in scoring to match job competency levels.
- Laws allow DCAS and its agency partners to determine scoring sessions for exams.
- Currently, there are no laws that DCAS views as unnecessarily restrictive.
- Logic and the demands of a job dictate the adaptation of the scoring system.
- DCAS aims to align the scoring system with the appropriate level of competency assessed by exams.
Carmen De La Rosa
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How does decast exercise discretion to grade exams.
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Are there laws that, in your view, unnecessarily restrict this discretion, and would decas apply a different grading system if these laws were amended.
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The
Sanford Cohen
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laws are are are fairly flexible.
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An amount would decast to determine in conjunction with its its agency partners.
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What the scoring session should be in any particular exam?
Carmen De La Rosa
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So at this moment, there aren't any laws that you view restrict you unnecessarily?
Sanford Cohen
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No.
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But logic and and the demands of a job, restrict this, and we try to.
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Adapt our scoring system too.
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What is the appropriate level of competency that's ascertain through taking a test.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Okay.
