HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2989        FILED ON: 2/18/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 645

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

James M. Kelcourse and Meghan Kilcoyne

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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 relative to the use of computer-adaptive assessments in K-12 education.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

James M. Kelcourse

1st Essex

2/18/2021

Meghan Kilcoyne

12th Worcester

2/18/2021

Gerard J. Cassidy

9th Plymouth

2/18/2021

Diana DiZoglio

First Essex

2/26/2021

Kate Lipper-Garabedian

32nd Middlesex

2/26/2021

Jeffrey N. Roy

10th Norfolk

3/24/2021

Mathew J. Muratore

1st Plymouth

4/14/2021

Carmine Lawrence Gentile

13th Middlesex

4/21/2021

Jack Patrick Lewis

7th Middlesex

12/21/2021


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2989        FILED ON: 2/18/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 645

By Representatives Kelcourse of Amesbury and Kilcoyne of Northborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 645) of James M. Kelcourse, Meghan Kilcoyne and others relative to the use of computer-adaptive assessments in public schools.  Education.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 539 OF 2019-2020.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court
(2021-2022)

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An Act relative to the use of computer-adaptive assessments in K-12 education.

 

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, in lines 13-17, the words “an effective mechanism for monitoring progress toward those goals and for holding educators accountable for their achievement.” and inserting in place thereof the following:-

“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.”

Section 2.  Section 1I of Chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by replacing the fourth sentence of the second paragraph with the following sentence:-

“Such instruments shall be criterion referenced, assessing which academic standards described in this chapter students are meeting.”

Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.