SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1790        FILED ON: 1/18/2019

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 277

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Diana DiZoglio, (BY REQUEST)

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act require the use of a computer-adaptive assessment to identify student achievement, growth, and for education system accountability.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

 

Julie Eidukonis

 

 

Barry R. Finegold

Second Essex and Middlesex

2/15/2019


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1790        FILED ON: 1/18/2019

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 277

By Ms. DiZoglio (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 277) of Julie Eidukonis and Barry R. Finegold for legislation to require the use of a computer-adaptive assessment to identify student achievement, growth, and for education system accountability.  Education.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act require the use of a computer-adaptive assessment to identify student achievement, growth, and for education system accountability.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 69 of the General laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out item (4) and inserting in place thereof the following words, effective July 1, 2021:

“(4) an effective mechanism, such as a computer-adaptive assessment, for monitoring the actual progress of individual students’ mastery through the various K-12 learning standards in English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies, which mechanism seeks to identify, on an annual basis, the learning standards students likely have already mastered and those which they haven’t, for the purposes of identifying all students’ authentic growth, ensuring their continuous progress through those learning standards, identifying directly the actual level of each student’s learning readiness in the public classrooms of the Commonwealth, and of holding educators more accurately and fairly accountable through such authentic measure of students’ achievement and growth.”