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HB 2794 Independent review of Standards of Learning assessments.

Introduced by: William W. (Ted) Bennett, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Independent review of Standards of Learning assessments. Directs the Board of Education to appoint an independent committee of testing experts to evaluate annually the application and uses of these assessments for student promotion, retention, remedial placement, and graduation requirements, as well as for school accreditation. This evaluation shall include a consequential validity analysis to assess the effects of the assessments and the technical characteristics of validity, reliability, and fairness of the uses of such assessment results. In conducting such consequential validity analysis, the committee shall consider the findings and recommendations of the Standards of Learning Test Technical Advisory Committee set forth in its Review of Selected Technical Characteristics of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments. The committee shall also make recommendations regarding the need for any additional state or local assessment mechanisms designed to improve instruction and to assess knowledge and skills required by the Standards of Learning and not reflected in the Standards of Learning assessments. The committee shall report its findings and recommendations to the Board of Education, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1 of each year. The first such report shall address the assessments administered in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001, and shall be delivered by November 1, 2001. This bill is identical to SB 1372.


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