February 1, 2005, Introduced by Rep. Palmer and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled
"An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance programs
of students in reading, mathematics and vocational education,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 388.1082).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. (1) The statewide assessment program of educational
progress
shall cover all students annually at two in at least 2
elementary and middle school grade levels in public schools.
(2)
The department of education, hereinafter referred to as
the
department, superintendent of public instruction shall develop
and
conduct the assessment program , and may utilize the
assistance
of appropriate testing organizations and/or or
testing
specialist
specialists. The program
shall expand the current
basic
skills testing inventory in grades 4 and 7 coordinated by the
department.
Beginning with assessments conducted in the 2005-2006
school year, all of the following apply to the assessment program:
(a) The superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that
any contractor used for scoring an assessment instrument supplies
an individual report for each student that will identify for the
student's parents and teachers whether the student met expectations
or failed to meet expectations for each question, to allow the
student's parents and teachers to assess and remedy problems before
the student moves to the next grade.
(b) The superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that
any contractor used for scoring, developing, or processing an
assessment instrument meets quality management standards commonly
used in the assessment industry, including at least meeting level 2
of the capability maturity model developed by the software
engineering institute of Carnegie Mellon university for the 2005-
2006 school year assessments and at least meeting level 3 of the
capability maturity model for subsequent assessments.
(c) The superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that
any contract it enters into for scoring, administering, or
developing an assessment instrument includes specific deadlines for
all steps of the assessment process, including, but not limited to,
deadlines for the correct testing materials to be supplied to
schools and for the correct results to be returned to schools, and
includes penalties for noncompliance with these deadlines.
(d) The superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that
the assessment instruments meet all of the following:
(i) Are designed to test students on grade level content
expectations in all subjects tested for each grade level tested.
(ii) Include not more than 2 written response portions for
English language arts for each grade level and do not include a
written response portion for mathematics or science.
(iii) Comply with requirements of the no child left behind act
of 2001, Public Law 107-110.
(e) The superintendent of public instruction shall work with
the assessment advisory board established in section 1279g of the
revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1279g, as applicable and
shall comply with the guidelines and procedures established by the
assessment advisory board as provided under that section.
(3) The program shall assess competencies in the basic skills
and collect and utilize other relevant information essential to the
assessment program.
(4) Based on information from the program, the public schools
shall
identify students shall be
identified who have
extraordinary need for assistance to improve their competence in
the basic skills and shall identify students who have demonstrated
extraordinary competence in multiple subject areas who should be
recommended for advancement.
(5)
Information from the program shall be given to each school
as
soon as possible in accordance with deadlines established by
the assessment advisory board under section 1279g of the revised
school
code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1279g, to
assist it the school
in its efforts to improve the achievement of students in the basic
skills.