Bill Text: TX HB812 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of interim testing and adaptive, growth-based assessment instruments for certain required assessments of public school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Public Education [HB812 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB812-Introduced.html
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By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 812 |
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relating to the use of interim testing and adaptive, growth-based | ||
assessment instruments for certain required assessments of public | ||
school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.417 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.417. PROHIBITING USE OF CERTAIN ASSESSMENT | ||
INSTRUMENTS AS SOLE CRITERION IN TEACHER EVALUATION OR | ||
COMPENSATION. The results of an assessment instrument administered | ||
under Section 39.023(a), (b), or (n) may not be used as the sole | ||
criterion in evaluating teacher performance or determining teacher | ||
compensation. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.02342 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.02342. INTERIM TESTING AND ADAPTIVE, GROWTH-BASED | ||
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) In this section, "adaptive, | ||
growth-based assessment instrument" means an assessment instrument | ||
that: | ||
(1) adjusts the level of difficulty for each student | ||
during administration of the assessment instrument to match the | ||
knowledge and ability demonstrated by the student on the assessment | ||
instrument; and | ||
(2) measures each student's academic progress over a | ||
period of time, regardless of the student's age, grade level, or | ||
performance in class. | ||
(b) Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, the agency | ||
shall ensure that each assessment instrument adopted or developed | ||
under Section 39.023(a), (b), or (n) is administered during the | ||
school year through statewide interim assessments. The results of | ||
the interim assessments for each subject shall be combined to | ||
determine a single summative score on that assessment instrument | ||
for each student in the manner established by commissioner rule. | ||
(c) An assessment instrument adopted or developed under | ||
Section 39.023(a), (b), or (n) that is administered in an | ||
electronic format must be an adaptive, growth-based assessment | ||
instrument. | ||
(d) In complying with this section, the agency may contract | ||
with a nonprofit organization that specializes in developing | ||
adaptive, growth-based assessment instruments. | ||
(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement this section, including rules: | ||
(1) providing the number and timing of the | ||
administration of the statewide interim assessments to be | ||
administered to a student for each assessment instrument described | ||
by Subsection (b), which must include at least: | ||
(A) one interim assessment administered at the | ||
beginning of the school year; and | ||
(B) one interim assessment administered at the | ||
end of the school year; and | ||
(2) establishing the criteria necessary to ensure an | ||
assessment instrument is an adaptive, growth-based assessment | ||
instrument. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.053, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c-4) to read as follows: | ||
(c-4) For purposes of Subsection (c)(2)(A), a student's | ||
improvement on an assessment instrument required under Section | ||
39.023(a), (b), or (n) must be measured from the beginning of the | ||
school year for which the district or campus is being evaluated to | ||
the end of that school year. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2022-2023 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. Not later than September 1, 2022, the Texas | ||
Education Agency shall adopt or develop each assessment instrument | ||
required under Section 39.023(a), (b), or (n), Education Code, in | ||
accordance with Section 39.02342, Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act. In adopting or developing each assessment instrument, the | ||
agency may not use or consider an assessment instrument included in | ||
the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) or the | ||
State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness Alternate (STAAR | ||
Alternate). | ||
SECTION 6. Not later than September 1, 2022, the | ||
commissioner of education shall: | ||
(1) ensure that the assessment instruments adopted or | ||
developed under Section 39.023(a), (b), or (n), Education Code, in | ||
accordance with Section 39.02342, Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act, comply to the greatest extent practicable with the | ||
requirements for academic assessments provided under the Every | ||
Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. Section 6311) and any other | ||
applicable federal law or regulation and identify any of those laws | ||
or regulations with which the assessment instruments cannot | ||
reasonably comply; and | ||
(2) request from the United States Department of | ||
Education a waiver from the application of any conflicting federal | ||
law or regulation identified under Subdivision (1) of this section | ||
or a written notification that a waiver is not required. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |