(a) Personal validation. The course provider shall maintain a system to validate the identity of the person taking the course. The personal validation system shall include the following requirements:
  (1) Personal validation questions. The course provider shall ask a minimum of ten (10) personal validation questions throughout the course.
  (2) Time to respond. The participant must correctly answer the online personal validation question within ninety (90) seconds. Failure by the participant to respond within ninety (90) seconds will result in the validation question being scored as incorrect.
  (3) Placement of questions. At least one personal validation question shall appear in each major unit or section.
  (4) Exclusion from the course. The course provider shall exclude the participant from the course after the participant has incorrectly answered more than thirty (30) percent of the personal validation questions.
  (5) Correction of answer. The course provider may correct an answer to a personal validation question for a participant who inadvertently missed a personal validation question. In such a case, the course provider shall record both answers and an explanation of the reasons that the course provider corrected the answer.
(b) Alternative methods. Upon approval by the department, the course provider may use alternate methods that are at least as secure as the personal validation question method.
(c) Content validation. The course provider shall incorporate a course content validation process that verifies participant comprehension of course material related to the educational objectives shown in §92.31(b), including the following:
  (1) Testing the participant's course comprehension. The course provider shall ask at least one course content validation question following each major unit or section.
  (2) Course content validation question difficulty. The question shall be multiple choice. The question shall be difficult enough that the answer may not be easily determined without having viewed the contents of the major unit or section.
  (3) Mastery of course content. The course provider shall test the participant's mastery of the course content by asking at least two questions from each major unit or section.
    (A) Test bank. The test bank for course content mastery questions shall include at least five (5) questions from each major unit or section.
    (B) Failure criteria. The course provider shall exclude the participant from the course after the participant has incorrectly answered more than thirty (30) percent of the content validation questions.
    (C) Answer identification. The course provider shall not identify the correct answer to the content validation question to the participant.

Source Note: The provisions of this §92.32 adopted to be effective March 15, 2018, 43 TexReg 1433