The established policy of Scholastic Testing Service, Inc. is to issue licenses, under our copyright and other business and proprietary rights, to allow the copying, reproduction, transcription, recording, storage, retrieval, and transmission of STS published proprietary material for the purpose of scoring and reporting by machine. STS proprietary material includes—but is not limited to—norms, answers, item-objective relations, reporting concepts and formats, tables, and statistical algorithms.

In conjunction with our responsibilities as a publisher serving the educational community, we strictly comply to those standards promulgated by the American Psychological Association for the development and norming of our standardized tests. We also have maintained the highest possible standards of research and quality control for our instruments. Our avowed objective is continued adherence to these standards in order to discharge our responsibilities to the education profession.

The reason for this licensing policy is to ensure that STS will be able to continue to develop high-quality major test instruments. The royalty charges to be paid for the licensing privilege help defray the significant costs involved in new test development.
Other than not-for-profit schools scoring and reporting their own cases, all those who score or report STS instruments to others will be required to sign licenses bearing a reasonable royalty charge.

At the present time, all not-for-profit schools automatically receive a royalty-free, nontransferable license for their own scoring and reporting. This policy of granting royalty-free, nontransferable licenses to not-for-profit schools is under continual review and therefore we retain the right to revoke it at any time. This privilege will not be revoked without giving prior written notice to our customers.