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FERPA Guidelines Professional Development Quiz

Carefully read the following questions and click the circle next to the best correct answer. You may only indicate one response to each question.

  1. Faculty are permitted to post student grades on their door provided Social Security Numbers are used to protect the identity of the students.





  2. According to FERPA, it is permissible to distribute graded examinations by leaving them on a table for students to pick up after class.





  3. It is permissible for a faculty member to include a student's grades and GPA in a letter of recommendation without obtaining the student's written permission since the student requested the faculty member to write the letter and provided a resume containing this information to the faculty member.





  4. A transfer student asks his advisor to make a copy of the college transcript included in his file. This is permissible since the student has already provided the college with a written authorization to release the transcript to MCC.





  5. One of your advisees wants to review all of your notes and the papers contained in your advisor file. According to the law, the contents of your file on the student must be made available for review and inspection.





  6. A medical school admissions office wants to confirm that an MCC alum earned a 3.95 GPA and graduated summa cum laude. According to FERPA, MCC may confirm both facts.





  7. Student Records may release confidential information without the written consent of a student upon receipt of a subpoena.





  8. A former SGA president claims in a newspaper article to have graduated with honors from MCC. In fact, the student never even completed her degree. The college cannot reveal to a reporter calling to confirm the facts that the student did not graduate without violating FERPA.





  9. An email message regarding a student would not be an educational record subject to review and inspection according to FERPA.





  10. A college counselor from a local high school wants to know how the high school's grads are doing in MCC’s engineering program. MCC cannot release individual GPAs but could provide aggregate information.