Thursday, December 10, 2009

State ed board: Begin work on course assessments; uniform content

This from Jim Warren at H-L:
The Kentucky Board of Education gave the go ahead Wednesday to develop plans for tests that state high school students would take at the end of a course to demonstrate whether they have mastered the material covered.

It still isn't known just what high school classes would use the proposed end-of-course assessments, or what the testing program would cost. Those are details that Kentucky Department of Education staffers will work out.

Wednesday's action was a preliminary step. Final approval and implementation of end-of-course tests would require board approval.

End-of-course assessments are in line with provisions of Senate Bill 1, the wide-ranging education improvement act approved by the Kentucky General Assembly last winter...

This is the draft the Senate Bill 1 Steering Committee has been pondering:

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