HB 2027

Abstract

Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment and for the purpose of providing measures of individual student growth over the course of the school year, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to include at least one beginning-of-year and one end-of-year assessment in order to provide individual student growth scores over the course of the school year, provided that the total time scheduled for taking all such assessments shall not exceed 150 percent of the time scheduled for taking a single end-of-year proficiency assessment. The bill requires the Department of Education to ensure adequate training for teachers and principals on how to interpret and use student growth data from such assessments to improve reading and mathematics instruction in grades three through eight throughout the school year. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to be fully implemented in each local school division no later than the 2024-2025 school year.

Standards of Learning assessments; reading andmathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth.Requires, no later than the 2024-2025 school year, each readingand mathematics Standards of Learning assessment for students ingrades three through eight to (i) be administered three times perschool year, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of eachschool year, for the purpose of providing measures of individualstudent growth over the course of the school year and (ii) provideaccurate measurement of a student's performance outside of his gradelevel through the incorporation, through computer adaptive technology,of test items at grade levels below and above the tested level. Thebill requires any student growth data to include such measurementof outside-of-grade-level performance. The bill requires the Departmentof Education to ensure adequate training for teachers and principals on how to interpret and use student growth data from such assessmentsto improve reading and mathematics instruction in grades three througheight throughout the school year. The bill prohibits the total timespent taking each such assessment over each of the three annual administrationsfrom exceeding 150 percent of the time spent taking a single end-of-yearproficiency assessment.