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1 1 Section 1. Section 256.9, Code Supplement 2003, is amended
1 2 by adding the following new subsection:
1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 53. Develop and administer a statewide
1 4 program of educational assessment reporting. The director
1 5 shall provide information needed to improve public schools by
1 6 collecting and disseminating data and information resulting
1 7 from assessments made of public school students, to aid in the
1 8 development and evaluation of necessary or beneficial
1 9 educational programs and policies by school districts, and to
1 10 inform parents of the educational progress of their children
1 11 in the public schools. Information collected under the
1 12 program shall be utilized as part of the state report card on
1 13 school performance and on statewide progress by the state in
1 14 accordance with implementation of the federal No Child Left
1 15 Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110. The program shall
1 16 include the assignment of a unique student identifier to each
1 17 student attending kindergarten through grade twelve.
1 18 a. Not later than July 1, 2005, the department shall
1 19 maintain an internet site that reports the following:
1 20 (1) Iowa tests of basic skills scores for each school
1 21 district that administers the test and for each attendance
1 22 center within the school district for grades three through
1 23 eight. Each school district administering the Iowa test of
1 24 basic skills shall provide a report to the department relating
1 25 to each attendance center's test score averages and a
1 26 longitudinal analysis of student progress as specified in
1 27 paragraph "c".
1 28 The report shall contain attendance-center-level test
1 29 results for the Iowa test of basic skills in the areas of
1 30 reading, social studies, mathematics, and science. The report
1 31 shall include, but shall not be limited to, the number of
1 32 students tested, the number of test results used to compute
1 33 the averages, average standard score, the corresponding grade
1 34 equivalent score, average stanine score for the group, and the
1 35 normal curve equivalent of average standard scores, and
2 1 percentile ranks based on student norms, as well as measures
2 2 of student progress as specified in paragraph "c".
2 3 (2) Iowa test of educational development scores for each
2 4 school district that administers the test and for each
2 5 attendance center within the school district for grades nine
2 6 through eleven. Each school district administering the Iowa
2 7 test of educational development shall provide a report to the
2 8 department relating to each attendance center's test score
2 9 averages and a longitudinal analysis of student progress as
2 10 specified in paragraph "c".
2 11 b. Scores required to be reported under paragraph "a",
2 12 subparagraphs (1) and (2), shall be presented in percentiles
2 13 that allow for comparisons between participating schools. The
2 14 internet site shall include background information regarding
2 15 the tests, including guidance for interpreting test scores and
2 16 the number of students that did not participate in the tests
2 17 and the reasons the students did not participate.
2 18 c. The department shall approve the use of a single value-
2 19 added system to calculate annually the amount of academic
2 20 growth for each student, school, and school district in
2 21 reading and mathematics, and other core academic areas where
2 22 possible. The system shall at a minimum contain the following
2 23 capabilities:
2 24 (1) Use of a mixed-model statistical analysis that has the
2 25 ability to use all achievement test data for each student,
2 26 including the data for students with missing test scores, that
2 27 does not adjust downward expectations for student progress
2 28 based on race, poverty, or gender, and that will provide the
2 29 best linear unbiased predictions of school or other
2 30 educational entity effects to minimize the impact of
2 31 fortuitous accumulation of random errors.
2 32 (2) The ability to work with test data from a variety of
2 33 sources, including data that are not vertically scaled, and to
2 34 provide a variety of analyses of such data.
2 35 (3) The capacity to receive and report results
3 1 electronically and provide support for districts utilizing the
3 2 system.
3 3 (4) The ability to create for each school district a chart
3 4 that reports grade-equivalent scores for grades three through
3 5 eight and gains between consecutive pairs of grades for each
3 6 attendance center and provides for a districtwide study of
3 7 grade-equivalent scores. The system shall create a chart for
3 8 each district in accordance with this subparagraph.
3 9 d. Each school district shall have complete access to and
3 10 utilization of its own value-added assessment reports
3 11 generated by the system at the student level for the purpose
3 12 of measuring student achievement at different educational
3 13 entity levels.
3 14 Sec. 2. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance
3 15 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
3 16 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
3 17 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
3 18 received by the school district under section 257.16. This
3 19 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
3 20 to meet all the state funding-related requirements of section
3 21 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
3 22 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
3 23 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
3 24 EXPLANATION
3 25 This bill requires the director of the department of
3 26 education to develop and implement a statewide program of
3 27 educational assessment reporting, and to develop and maintain
3 28 an internet site to post, by July 1, 2005, assessment reports
3 29 and longitudinal growth analysis charts that the bill requires
3 30 school districts to submit to the director. The bill also
3 31 requires the department to approve the use of a single value-
3 32 added system to calculate academic growth.
3 33 The reports to be posted on the department's internet site
3 34 include the Iowa tests of basic skills scores for grades three
3 35 through eight and the Iowa test of educational development for
4 1 grades 9 through 11. Each school district administering the
4 2 Iowa test of basic skills must provide a report to the
4 3 department relating to each attendance center's test score
4 4 averages and a longitudinal analysis chart.
4 5 The bill specifies the information each report and
4 6 longitudinal analysis chart must contain and how it shall be
4 7 presented. The bill requires that the internet site include
4 8 background information regarding the tests, including guidance
4 9 for interpreting test scores and the number of students that
4 10 did not participate in the tests and the reasons the students
4 11 did not participate.
4 12 The purpose of the single value-added system the department
4 13 must approve is to calculate annually the academic growth for
4 14 each student, school, and school district in core academic
4 15 areas. The bill describes the capabilities the system must
4 16 contain.
4 17 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
4 18 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any
4 19 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
4 20 district from state school foundation aid received by the
4 21 school district under Code section 257.16. The specification
4 22 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
4 23 mandate funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
4 24 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
4 25 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
4 26 state mandates included in the bill.
4 27 LSB 6317SC 80
4 28 kh/gg/14
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