Achievement Test Qualification Levels: What the Letters Mean
Updated: 3 days ago
You found the test you want. You scrolled to the ordering panel, and there it is: a single letter, sitting next to the price, deciding whether the kit ships to you or not.
Achievement test qualification levels look like a scale. They are not one. The letter on a product page is set by that publisher, for that product, under that publisher's own system, and the same letter means different things at different storefronts. There is no industry ladder, no regulator behind it, and nothing that converts your job title into a letter.
This is a map of what each publisher actually publishes, for the achievement and reading instruments an educational therapist or learning specialist is most likely to want: the WIAT-4, the KTEA-3, the Woodcock-Johnson V Tests of Achievement, the WRMT-III, the GORT-5, the TOWRE-2, the CTOPP-2 and the PAL-II.
Everything below was read from the publisher's own page on 15 September 2026, and where a page would not load or a definition is not published, this article says so rather than guessing.
One thing this article does not do: tell you which test to buy or what to conclude from a score. That is a decision about a specific client, and it belongs to you and to your ethics code, not to a web page.
The letter is not a scale
Here is the finding, and everything else follows from it.
Five publishers sell the instruments listed above. Between them they use four different qualification systems, with different numbers of rungs, different names for the rungs, and different degrees attached to the same rung.
Pearson and PRO-ED use three letters: A, B, C.
PAR uses four: A, S, B, C, where S is a healthcare-specific level the other two do not have.
WPS uses four: A, B, C, N, where N sits at the top and C is in the middle.
Riverside Insights uses no letters at all. Its tiers are None, Low, Medium and High.
So a "Level C" test is the hardest thing to buy at Pearson and PRO-ED, and is the second hardest at WPS. And the degree behind the letter moves too: a Pearson or PRO-ED Level C starts at a doctorate, while a WPS Level C starts at a master's, or at a bachelor's degree plus a licence.
The letter is a purchasing rule for one storefront. It is not a statement about you, and it does not travel.
Regular readers will recognise the shape of this. It is the same thing we found when we mapped executive function assessment tools and discovered that Level B is not one bar, and the same thing that runs through continuing education, where a CE hour is not a portable currency. When several organisations share a vocabulary, check whether they mean the same thing by it. They usually do not.
What each publisher's letters actually say
These are the published definitions, quoted from each publisher's current qualifications page, read 15 September 2026.
Pearson: A, B, C, and a Level B with five doors
Pearson's qualifications policy opens by naming the document it is built on:
"Pearson is committed to maintaining professional standards in testing as presented in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). A central principle of professional test use is that individuals should use only those tests for which they have the appropriate training and expertise."
Hold that reference in mind, because Riverside Insights cites the same document, the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, and arrives at a completely different tier structure. The shared foundation does not produce a shared scheme.
Level A is simply stated: "There are no special qualifications to purchase these products."
Level B is the one that matters for achievement testing, and it is unusually wide. It lists five alternative routes, any one of which is sufficient. A master's degree in psychology, education, speech language pathology, occupational therapy, social work or counselling, with formal assessment training.
Or "Certification by or full active membership in a professional organization (such as ASHA, AOTA, AERA, ACA, AMA, CEC, AEA, AAA, EAA, NAEYC, NBCC, CVRP) that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment." Or "A degree or license to practice in the healthcare or allied healthcare field." Or formal supervised training specific to assessing children. Or, in four words, "Work for an accredited institution."
That last route deserves a moment. On Pearson's published policy, employment at an accredited institution is a qualification route in its own right, with no degree named.
Level C is narrower: "Tests with a C qualification require a high level of expertise in test interpretation," satisfied by a doctorate with formal assessment training, or state licensure or certification in a related field, or "full active membership in a professional organization (such as APA, NASP, NAN, INS)."
PRO-ED: almost the same words, three routes instead of five
PRO-ED's qualifications policy reads as a close cousin of Pearson's, which is worth knowing because the small differences are real. PRO-ED's Level B master's list names "psychology, education, occupational therapy, social work, counseling" and does not include speech-language pathology. Its professional-organisation list stops at NBCC and does not include CVRP. And it has no "work for an accredited institution" route at all.
PRO-ED also states the general rule plainly: "All tests are classified by a User qualification code. See the specific test descriptions in the catalog or on the Web for these qualification levels." On product pages the field is labelled Test Level rather than qualification level, which is easy to miss when you are comparing two tabs.
PAR: four levels, and a bachelor's-level B
PAR runs A, S, B and C. The S level is for health care professionals and has no equivalent at Pearson or PRO-ED.
PAR's Level B is the widest door of the publishers here, because it is satisfiable at the undergraduate level. PAR's published wording runs:
"A degree from an accredited 4-year college or university in psychology, counseling, speech-language pathology, or a closely related field plus satisfactory completion of coursework in test interpretation, psychometrics and measurement theory, educational statistics, or a closely related area; or license or certification from an agency that requires appropriate training and experience in the ethical and competent use of psychological tests."
Read that against Pearson's Level B, which starts at a master's, and PRO-ED's, which also starts at a master's. Three publishers, one letter, two different degrees.
WPS: the letters run A, B, C, N, and C is not the top
This is the system most likely to mislead you, because it looks like the others and is not.
WPS publishes its Qualification Guidelines as a single-page table with four letter codes. Read from the top:
N — a doctorate, or a master's plus "Experience or training in neuropsychological assessment." Products qualified to purchase: "All products."
C — a master's, or a bachelor's plus "A license or certification from an agency/organization that requires training and experience in assessment." Products: "All products except advanced neuropsychological instruments."
B — a bachelor's degree "in psychology or a related field (e.g., occupational therapy, speech–language pathology, special education)." Products: "General screening materials, counseling materials, instructional materials, achievement tests."
A — "No degree requirement." Products: "Books and instructional materials only."
Two things follow. First, N is the ceiling and C is the middle, so a WPS "Level C required" is not the doctorate-level gate that a PRO-ED or Pearson C would be. Second, and this is the sentence to take away for achievement testing specifically, WPS's Level B explicitly names "achievement tests" among the products a bachelor's degree qualifies you to buy.
WPS also states the boundary of its own system, in terms, at the foot of the same page:
"WPS's qualification guidelines are for the purchase of materials through WPS. Additional training and experience may be required for the proper use of specific instruments."
And: "The qualification guidelines described here are broad and do not provide an exhaustive list of which professionals may purchase our products."
A note on our own earlier reporting. When we wrote about dysgraphia and writing intervention tools on 10 September 2026, we flagged that the TOWL-4 carries a different letter at WPS than elsewhere, and said plainly that we could not retrieve WPS's own definition of its levels and would not assert what WPS meant by C. That gap is now closed.
The guidelines load from `wpspublish.com` even though the content-delivery mirror that had been failing still does, and the definitions are quoted above. The correction matters in a specific direction: the apparent escalation from B to C at WPS is smaller than it looks, because WPS's C sits roughly where the other publishers' B sits in degree terms.
MHS: a fourth meaning for the letter B
MHS does not publish the achievement and reading instruments in this article, but it publishes the executive function rating scales many of the same practitioners use, and its system is worth holding alongside the others because it defines B a fourth way.
MHS runs A, B, C and M, where M "can only be purchased for use in a law enforcement agency setting." Its B-level is defined by coursework rather than by a degree: "B-level products require that the user has completed graduate-level courses in tests and measurement at a university or has received equivalent documented training."
So across six publishers, Level B means a bachelor's plus measurement coursework at PAR, a bachelor's at WPS, a master's or one of four other routes at Pearson, a master's or one of three other routes at PRO-ED, a master's plus licensure at Academic Therapy Publications, and graduate coursework in tests and measurement at MHS.
Same letter, six doors, different widths. This is the finding we first hit while mapping the executive function instruments, and every publisher page checked since has widened it rather than narrowed it.
Riverside Insights: no letters, and the tier depends on the battery
Riverside does not use letters. Its Special Needs Assessments User Qualifications Guide.pdf?hsLang=en) sets out four tiers, and like Pearson it names the standards it is built on, citing the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing directly.
High — "Customer is qualified to purchase all available Riverside Insights Special Needs Assessments." Doctorate or master's in a closely related field with supervised training in administration, scoring and interpretation; or state licensure or certification plus that supervised training; or membership of a body such as APA, NASP, NAN or INS.
Medium — "Customer is qualified to purchase all products except advanced clinical, cognitive, and neuropsychological instruments." A bachelor's degree or higher in early childhood education or development, education or a psychology-related field, or certification in OT, PT or another closely related medical field, plus supervised training.
Low — "Customer is qualified to purchase general screening, counselling, and instructional materials, as well as developmental tests."
None — "No necessary training or educational degree require to purchase materials." The wording is reproduced as published.
The membership route, and the bodies it names
One route through Level B deserves separating out, because it is the one most often missed by practitioners who assume the gate is a degree.
Both Pearson and PRO-ED accept, as an alternative to any degree requirement, "Certification by or full active membership in a professional organization… that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment." Both then name the organisations they have in mind. Pearson's list is the longer one: ASHA, AOTA, AERA, ACA, AMA, CEC, AEA, AAA, EAA, NAEYC, NBCC and CVRP. PRO-ED's is the same list minus CVRP.
For a practitioner already holding one of these memberships, that is a door that does not require going back for another degree. The named bodies most likely to be relevant to this readership:
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
The American Counseling Association (ACA)
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
At Level C the list is shorter and more specialised: the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the International Neuropsychological Society.
Two cautions. The publisher decides whether a given membership satisfies its own clause, and the clause says the organisation must be one "that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment" — so the membership has to be relevant to the instrument, not merely current. And membership of a body is not, in itself, training in an instrument. That distinction is the whole of AET II.I.C, below.
The Association of Educational Therapists is not named on any of these publisher lists. That is a statement about what those six pages contain as of 15 September 2026, not about AET.
The same test, a different letter
Four of the instruments here are sold by several storefronts at once, which makes them a natural test of whether a letter travels. Every figure below was read from the named distributor's own page on 15 September 2026.
CTOPP-2
The Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Second Edition, one test, five storefronts:
TOWL-4
The Test of Written Language, Fourth Edition shows the identical split: B at PRO-ED, B at PAR, B at Pearson, B at Therapro, and "Level C required." at WPS.
GORT-5 and TOWRE-2
These two do not split. The GORT-5 is B everywhere it was checked, including WPS, and so is the TOWRE-2. Academic Therapy Publications lists the GORT-5 at Level B under its own qualification scheme, in which Level B requires "At least a master's degree required, with state licensure OR certification from a professional organization."
So the same instrument sits at Level B under a scheme where B means a bachelor's, and at Level B under a scheme where B means a master's. The letter matched. The requirement did not.
One storefront does not always publish a letter at all
Therapro sells both the CTOPP-2 and the GORT-5. On 15 September 2026 its CTOPP-2 page carried the line "Qualification Level: B" in the specification block, and its GORT-5 page carried age range, testing time and administration format but no qualification level line. Both pages instead carry the same instruction: "Please complete and submit this publisher-required qualification form with your order."
That is worth reading as a description rather than a criticism. Some storefronts publish the letter; some route you to a form and settle it at the order. Either way, the absence of a letter on a page is not permission.
The instruments, one by one
WIAT-4 (Pearson)
Qualification level B. Published 2020, for "Individuals 4:0 - 50:11," with completion time that "Varies by grade level and number of subtests administered." Administration is offered as "Paper-and-pencil, Q-interactive, and Q-global (using digital stimulus materials)."
Worth noting for anyone assuming a digital edition is treated differently: every purchasable item on the WIAT-4 page, print and digital alike, carries the same Level B. The delivery format does not change the gate.
KTEA-3 (Pearson)
Qualification level B. Published 2014, for "Individuals 4:0–25:11," with "15-85 min for ASB Composite," offered on "Q-interactive (digital) or paper-and-pencil." Pearson describes it as evaluating "academic skills in reading, math, written language, and oral language."
The third edition is still the current one. A search of Pearson's store on 15 September 2026 found no fourth edition; the only other edition listed is the older KTEA-II. That is a search finding on one date, not a statement about Pearson's plans.
Woodcock-Johnson V Tests of Achievement (Riverside Insights)
Medium. The WJ V is a 2025 system by McGrew, Mather, LaForte and Wendling, and the qualifications guide lists "Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement V (WJ V ACH)" in the Medium tier while placing "Woodcock-Johnson V Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ V COG)" in High.
This is the single clearest illustration of qualification attaching to a product rather than to a person. One test system, one purchaser, two tiers, because the cognitive battery asks something of its user that the achievement battery does not. Riverside's own store page carries the parenthetical "(Pending qualifications)" next to Tests of Cognitive Abilities and next to nothing else.
The Virtual Test Library sits at Medium with the achievement battery. Riverside's WJ IV page states that "WJ IV kits are available for purchase through the end of 2026, and paper record forms through 2027," so a practice mid-transition can still buy either, at the same split of tiers.
WRMT-III (Pearson)
Qualification level B. Published 2011, "Ages 4:6 – 79:11; Grades K–12," paper-and-pencil administration with Q-global or manual scoring. Pearson publishes no completion time field for it, which is not the same thing as the test being untimed.
GORT-5, and the edition change you may not have noticed
This one has moved, and recently. PRO-ED now lists the GORT-5: NU, a normative update dated 2026, at Test Level B, for ages 6-0 through 23-11, with a testing time of 20 to 30 minutes and scoring described as "Online only."
The line to read twice is PRO-ED's own note: "The previous GORT-5 kit and components are not compatible with new GORT-5: NU due to a change in items."
Meanwhile other storefronts were still listing the original GORT-5 on the same date, with the 2012 copyright, including Therapro. If you are replacing consumables from a kit already on your shelf, the storefront you order from decides which version arrives, and the two are not interchangeable.
TOWRE-2 (PRO-ED)
Test Level B. Torgesen, Wagner and Rashotte, 2012, ages 6-0 through 24-11, with a testing time of 5 to 10 minutes. PRO-ED describes it as "a measure of an individual's ability to pronounce printed words (Sight Word Efficiency) and phonemically regular nonwords (Phonemic Decoding Efficiency) accurately and fluently."
CTOPP-2 (PRO-ED and others)
Test Level B at PRO-ED, Level C at WPS. Wagner, Torgesen, Rashotte and Pearson, 2013, ages 4-0 through 24-11, 40 minutes, described as "an assessment of reading-related phonological processing skills."
PAL-II Reading and Writing (Pearson)
Two letters on one product. Pearson publishes the qualification for the PAL-II as "B (Reading/Writing and Math), A (Guides for Intervention)." The assessment components are Level B; the intervention guides are Level A.
It is the instrument the International Dyslexia Association's own dysgraphia fact sheet points at, and as of 15 September 2026 it is still listed, with a 2007 date on the assessments and 2020 on the revised user guides.
Qualification attaches to two things at once
Every publisher here runs the same basic machinery, and it helps to see it as two separate things that meet at the order.
The product carries a level. Pearson: "All Professional Assessments products are assigned a qualifications level of either A, B, or C (with C being the highest qualification level)." PAR: "all products sold by PAR have a designated qualification level… This qualification level is listed on each product page."
The purchaser carries a level too. Pearson again, on purchasing as a qualified user: "Similar to our product levels, all website customers are assigned, based on credentials, an individual qualification level of A, B, or C to allow for purchasing of corresponding assessments." Customers enter degrees, licences, accredited-institution employment and organisation memberships into a website account.
The order is where they meet. Pearson: "We only accept orders identifying a Qualified User who is registered on our website or had previously submitted their qualifications." PRO-ED: "We accept orders from individuals when a User Acceptance Form has been submitted and accepted." PAR: "Eligibility to purchase restricted materials is determined on the basis of training, education, and experience." Riverside's conditions of sale are the most explicit about the discretion involved:
"Riverside Insights requires all first-time test purchasers to furnish evidence of their qualifications to use tests by either completing a Test Purchaser Qualification Form or by creating an account at riversideinsights.com. Riverside Insights reserves the right to require evidence of qualification on any or all subsequent purchases. Riverside Insights reserves the right to accept, reject, or withdraw whole or partial orders for materials when the recommended standards are not met."
The clause about tutoring services
One sentence in Riverside's conditions of sale is worth the attention of anyone in independent practice, because no other publisher checked here has an equivalent:
"Individuals or organizations providing assessment preparation or tutoring services are not eligible to license, access, distribute, or otherwise use Riverside Insights' assessment materials."
How a practice describes itself is not a neutral marketing choice under that clause. It is one more reason the distinction between educational therapy and tutoring, which we mapped in the role comparison pillar and again in the scope map, has consequences beyond positioning.
Administering is not interpreting
Pearson draws a line inside the qualification itself, defining the Qualified User as "the individual who assumes responsibility for all aspects of appropriate test use, including administration, scoring, interpretation, and application of results," and then adding:
"Some tests may be administered or scored by individuals with less training, as long as they are under the supervision of a Qualified User."
Riverside says the same thing about its cognitive battery in stronger terms: "Competent interpretation of the WJ IV COG requires a higher degree of knowledge and experience than is required for administering and scoring the tests."
This is the same split we found across the executive function instruments. The Conners 4 manual permits administration and scoring by "individuals who do not have advanced formal training in psychology or psychometrics" while reserving interpretation for those who do. And HealthMeasures states that the NIH Toolbox cognition tests require C-level qualifications "or be supervised by someone with C-level qualifications."
Both map onto AET II.I.D, which is the clause that sends interpretation outward rather than treating it as an extension of administration.
Nobody translates a letter into a job title
If you have been waiting for the table that maps "educational therapist" or "learning specialist" onto a letter, there isn't one, and the most useful statement on the subject comes from a publisher.
Riverside's support article on qualification for the Woodcock-Johnson cognitive battery says it outright:
"Because professional titles, roles, and responsibilities vary across jurisdictions (even within school districts themselves) it is impossible to equate competency to professional titles."
And it hands the decision somewhere else entirely: "the school district and/or overseeing organization has the final say in who can and cannot administer our assessments."
No crosswalk between publisher letter levels and professional credentials was found on the qualification pages of Pearson, PRO-ED, PAR, WPS, Riverside Insights or Academic Therapy Publications as of 15 September 2026. That is a finding about those sources on that date, not a claim that no such document exists anywhere.
It also means the question "am I a B?" has no general answer. You are a B at a given publisher if the credentials you entered into that publisher's account satisfy one of that publisher's published routes. That is the whole of it. For practitioners working out which credentials they hold and what they are called, our maps of learning specialist certification and the route into educational therapy cover the ground.
What your ethics code requires that the storefront does not
A publisher deciding to ship you a kit settles a commercial question. It does not settle a professional one, and the two are genuinely independent.
The Association of Educational Therapists' Code of Ethics and Standards, Revision #9, 2025, carries three clauses that bite here, and they bind whether or not an order goes through.
II.I.C — educational therapists "use only those assessment instruments for which they have been adequately trained."
II.I.B — they "select and use appropriate assessment instruments, recognizing their limitations with respect to reliability, validity, and bias."
II.I.D — they "seek interpretation of assessment data from professionals in related fields (e.g. medical, psychological, speech/language, neuropsychological)."
Note what II.I.C does not say. It does not say "instruments you are qualified to purchase." Adequate training is the test, and it is yours to establish. I.II.A is the same idea at the level of the practice: provide "only those professional services for which they have been adequately trained."
The AET Fact Sheet draws the outer boundary, and the parenthetical is part of the sentence and is routinely dropped when people quote it. Educational therapists do not "administer cognitive, intelligence, or psychological tests (unless otherwise qualified to do so)." The same fact sheet affirms that educational therapists are skilled in administering formal and informal educational assessments "for which they are both qualified and trained to use, and/or interpreting assessment results."
That is why the Woodcock-Johnson split matters so much for this audience specifically. The achievement battery sits at Medium; the cognitive battery sits at High and is a cognitive test.
A letter tells you whether a box will be shipped. Your code tells you whether it should be opened.
A sequence, not a decision
We are not going to tell you which instrument to buy. What follows is the order in which the questions answer each other, and it is deliberately not a recommendation.
Start with the question, not the catalogue. What decision will this score inform, and would an existing report or a curriculum-based measure answer it? Our note on writing a treatment plan covers what a baseline needs to carry.
Check your training against the instrument, before you check the letter. II.I.C is the binding test, and it is not satisfied by a successful order.
Then check the letter, at the storefront you will actually order from — and note that it may differ at another storefront selling the identical test.
Read what the letter means at that publisher, not what it meant at the last one. A C at WPS and a C at PRO-ED are different bars.
Establish your account once. Every publisher here wants credentials attached to an account or a form, and doing it before you need a kit urgently saves a week.
Check the edition before you reorder consumables. The GORT-5 to GORT-5: NU change is the live example.
Decide in advance who interprets. If the answer involves cognitive or psychological data, II.I.D routes it to a related-field professional, and that is a referral, not a failure.
Where the reading-specific questions overlap with programme choice, our comparisons of reading intervention programmes and of math intervention for dyscalculia both cover what the publishers themselves claim, and what they do not.
The same non-transferability applies to the other quantity practitioners assume is standard. Supervised hours are counted six different ways by the six bodies that credential this work — hours, sessions, lessons and months — and none of them publishes reciprocity with another.
Where the published record runs out
Stating the gaps is part of the report.
WPS does not define "additional training." Its Level C bachelor's route requires "a license or certification from an agency/organization that requires training and experience in assessment," and its N route requires "Experience or training in neuropsychological assessment." Neither phrase is defined further on the guidelines page.
Riverside publishes no tier for the WJ V Nonverbal battery in the 2025 guide. Riverside's own pages also give more than one launch date for it, so nothing about its timing is asserted here.
Two Academic Therapy Publications product pages returned 404 on 15 September 2026 for the TOWRE-2 and the TOWL-4, so no level could be read for those two at that storefront. Whether ATP carries them at all was not established.
Pearson does not publish authors on its product pages for any of the four instruments checked, and publishes no completion time for the WRMT-III.
No publisher checked here publishes a review process. Pearson says customers are "assigned, based on credentials," a level; none of them says who reviews the credentials or whether the review is manual.
Prices change and are deliberately not published here. Every figure in this article is a qualification, an age band, a date or a duration.
This is five storefronts, not the market. MHS, Guilford, Slosson, Super Duper and others sell instruments in this space and were not part of this check, except where noted.
Frequently asked questions
Does a Level B at one publisher make me a Level B at another?
No. Each publisher assigns your level from the credentials you supply to that publisher, under that publisher's own published routes. PAR's Level B is satisfiable with a four-year degree plus measurement coursework; Pearson's and PRO-ED's Level B start at a master's or an equivalent route; WPS's Level B is a bachelor's degree. The letter is not portable, and neither is the account.
Is a Level C test always harder to qualify for than a Level B test?
Within a single publisher, yes, that is how each of these systems is built. Across publishers, no. WPS runs A, B, C and N, with N at the top, so a WPS "Level C required" is its middle tier and starts at a master's, or at a bachelor's plus a licence. A Pearson or PRO-ED Level C starts at a doctorate.
Can an educational therapist buy the Woodcock-Johnson V Tests of Achievement?
The achievement battery sits in Riverside's Medium tier, whose published route includes a bachelor's degree or higher in education or a psychology-related field plus supervised training in administration, scoring and interpretation.
Whether any individual meets that is decided by Riverside from the credentials on the account. Separately, AET II.I.C requires adequate training in the instrument regardless of what a publisher will sell, and Riverside's conditions of sale exclude individuals or organisations providing tutoring or assessment preparation services.
Why does the same test carry different letters at different stores?
Because each storefront assigns the level under its own scheme rather than inheriting one from the test's author. The CTOPP-2 and the TOWL-4 are both Level B at PRO-ED, PAR and Pearson and "Level C required" at WPS. Since WPS's C sits below its N, the gap between those listings is smaller than the letters suggest.
Does buying a digital version change the qualification?
Not on the pages checked. Every purchasable WIAT-4 item carries Level B, print and digital alike, and the KTEA-3 is Level B on both Q-interactive and paper. Delivery format and qualification level are set independently.
If a publisher will sell me a test, am I qualified to use it?
No, and the publishers say so themselves. WPS states that its guidelines are for purchasing through WPS and that "Additional training and experience may be required for the proper use of specific instruments." Pearson's Qualified User is the person who "assumes responsibility for all aspects of appropriate test use." For AET members, II.I.C is the operative standard, and it asks about training, not about a completed order.
Before you order anything
Write down the decision the score is meant to inform, then work backwards. Most of the time the honest answer is that a well-kept baseline and a referral get you further than a new kit does, and the kit that is genuinely needed is worth the week it takes to set an account up properly.
Nothing here is legal advice. Requirements published by a test publisher are commercial terms, and questions about what your employer, your district or your own credential permits belong with that organisation and, for independent practice, with an attorney.
If you are building a practice on this kind of ground and you would rather not check five storefronts yourself every time, we write one of these a week for practitioners.
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