Student assessment measures.

WORKING DRAFT
2010
STATE OF
WYOMING
10LSO-0209.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0120

Student assessment measures.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Throne, Craft and Kimble and Senator(s) Sessions

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
education;
modifying

statewide
as
sessment as specified
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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2
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304(a)(v)(
B
) is amended to read:

21
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2
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304.

Duties of the state board of education.

(a)

The state board of education shall:

(v)

Through the state superintendent and in consultation and coordination with local school districts, implement a statewide assessment system comprised of a coherent system of measures that when combined, provide a reliable and valid measure of individual student achievement for each public school and school district within the state, and the performance of the state as a whole. Improvement of teaching and learning in schools and fostering school program improvement shall be the primary purposes of statewide assessment of student performance in
Wyoming
. The statewide assessment system shall:

(B)

Be administered at appropriate levels at specified grades and at appropriate intervals aligned to the standards, specifically assessing student performance in reading
, writing
and mathematics at grades four (4), eight (8) and eleven (11), and effective school year 2005-2006, and each school year thereafter, assessing student performance in reading
, writing
and mathematics at grades three (3) through eight (8) and at grade eleven (11). In addition and commencing school year 2007-2008 and each school year thereafter, the statewide assessment system shall assess student performance in science not less than once within each grade band for grades three (3) through five (5), grades six (6) through eight (8) and grades ten (10) through twelve (12). The structure and design of the assessment system shall allow for the comprehensive measurement of student performance through assessments that are administered each school year simultaneously on a statewide basis and through assessments administered periodically over the course of the school year which are designed to provide a more comprehensive and in-depth measurement of subject areas aligned to the state content and performance standards. The assessment system may also measure the other common core of knowledge and skills established under W.S. 21
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101(b) which can be quantified;

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2010.

(END)

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