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90_SB1610ham003
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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1610
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1610 on page 5, by
3 replacing line 11 with the following:
4 "of academically-based tests shall be reliable, valid,
5 unbiased and"; and
6 by inserting after line 21 the following:
7 "Beginning in the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of
8 Education may, on a pilot basis, include in the State
9 assessments in reading and math at each grade level tested no
10 more than 2 short answer questions, where students have to
11 respond in brief to questions or prompts or show
12 computations, rather than select from alternatives that are
13 presented. In the first year that such questions are used,
14 scores on the short answer questions shall not be reported on
15 an individual student basis but shall be aggregated for each
16 school building in which the tests are given. State-level,
17 school, and district scores shall be reported both with and
18 without the results of the short answer questions so that the
19 effect of short answer questions is clearly discernible.
20 Beginning in the second year of this pilot program, scores on
21 the short answer questions shall be reported both on an
22 individual student basis and on a school building basis in
23 order to monitor the effects of teacher training and
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1 curriculum improvements on score results.
2 The State Board of Education shall not continue the use
3 of short answer questions in the math and reading
4 assessments, or extend the use of such questions to other
5 State assessments, unless this pilot project demonstrates
6 that the use of short answer questions results in a
7 statistically significant improvement in student achievement
8 as measured on the State assessments for math and reading and
9 is justifiable in terms of cost and student performance.";
10 and
11 on page 8, line 5, by replacing "IGAP" with "State Testing
12 IGAP"; and
13 in line 10, by replacing "(IGAP)" with "(IGAP)".