Bill Text: CA AB908 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupils: extracurricular activities: work permits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2020. [AB908 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB908-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 29, 2019

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 09, 2019

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 908

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Introduced by Assembly Member O’Donnell

February 20, 2019

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An act to amend Section 60642.6 of the Education Code, relating to pupil assessment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 908, as amended, O’Donnell. Pupil assessments: interim assessments and formative assessments. assessment tools.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, and any other entity or individual designated by the Governor to participate in the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or any related interstate consortium, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, interim and formative assessment tools for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided through membership in that consortium. Existing law requires the interim assessments to be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning.

This bill would require formative assessments assessment tools offered pursuant to those provisions to also be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning. The bill would require the formative assessment tools to include a bank of sample and retired test items released test items from prior administrations of the summative assessment, identified by the standard assessed, and including certain test item types and information, that teachers may embed in their instruction in order to aid in eliciting eliciting, interpreting, and acting on evidence about pupils’ progress. The bill would require the bank of test items to be accessible online without requiring an account, and to be presented separately from other formative assessment resources currently produced by the consortium.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 60642.6 of the Education Code is amended to read:

60642.6.

 (a) The department shall acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, interim assessments and formative assessment tools for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided through the consortium membership pursuant to Section 60605.7. The interim assessments and formative assessments assessment tools shall be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use, in combination with other sources of information they have about their pupils’ progress, to continually adjust instruction to improve learning. The formative assessment tools shall include a bank of sample and retired test items from the summative assessment, identified by the standard assessed, that teachers may embed in their instruction in order to aid in eliciting evidence about pupils’ progress.

(b) A local educational agency that elects to use the interim assessments provided for under this section shall ensure that teachers who administer the assessments have access to all functions and information which are designed for teacher use and which relate to the assessments and pupil performance on the assessments.

(c) All interim assessments offered pursuant to this section shall be developed in close consultation with current classroom teachers at each grade level assessed for the purpose of soliciting feedback regarding the capacity of the interim assessments to provide timely feedback to allow teachers to continually adjust instruction to improve learning.

(d) The formative assessment tools required to be offered by the department pursuant to this section shall include a bank of released test items from prior administrations of the summative assessment produced by the consortium, that teachers may embed in their instruction in order to aid in eliciting, interpreting, and acting on evidence about pupils’ progress. The bank of test items shall identify items by the standard assessed. The bank of test items shall be accessible online without requiring an account, and shall be presented separately from other formative assessment resources currently produced by the consortium. The bank of test items shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) A significant number of the items that appeared on all prior administrations of the summative assessment, for each grade level assessed.

(2) A variety of item types, including performance tasks, in proportion to the item types found on the summative assessment.

(3) Scoring rubrics, guides to scoring, answer keys, and scored and annotated sample pupil responses.