Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 07, 2014 |
print number 2333a |
Mar 07, 2014 |
amend and recommit to education |
Jan 08, 2014 |
referred to education |
Jan 14, 2013 |
referred to education |
Assembly Bill A2333A
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
PAULIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Carmen E. Arroyo
Michael Benedetto
multi-Sponsors
James F. Brennan
Keith L.T. Wright
2013-A2333 - Details
2013-A2333 - Summary
Provides for accountability in state assessments by creating a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation and adequate yearly progress by requiring a written report, implementation of an auditing and review of pilot and/or field testing of the standardized tests used to ensure validity, reliability, alignment to standards and appropriateness of use.
2013-A2333 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2333 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 14, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, ARROYO, BENEDETTO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to require annual reports and create a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation or adequate yearly progress for validity, reliability, alignment to stan- dards and appropriateness of use THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the state board of regents has established five examinations to authenticate that a regents diploma may be conferred upon a high school student. Examina- tions established by the state board of regents in mathematics and English language arts to be administered in the third through eighth grades, as well as in high school, are utilized to determine whether or not a school, and ultimately a school district, has made adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Schools or districts that fail to demonstrate AYP are subject to a series of sanctions culminating in closing and reorganizing the schools in question. This increases the emphasis on state mandated standardized examinations having real, high stakes consequences for both students and schools. Therefore, it is essential that these examinations be valid and reliable measures of student attainments in learning and that they be a demonstratively scientifically accurate means of determining a student's readiness for graduation or grade promotion, and a school's overall performance. Holding students and educators to high standards demands holding tests to high psychometric and curricular standards. Furthermore, the federal NCLB requires that assessments used for grad- uation, promotion and to determine a school's AYP be "valid and reli- able, and be consistent with relevant, nationally recognized profes- sional and technical standards." 20 U.S.C. sec. 6311(b)(3)(C)(iii). EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03211-01-3
co-Sponsors
Carmen E. Arroyo
Michael Benedetto
multi-Sponsors
James F. Brennan
Keith L.T. Wright
2013-A2333A (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A2333A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Provides for accountability in state assessments by creating a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation and adequate yearly progress by requiring a written report, implementation of an auditing and review of pilot and/or field testing of the standardized tests used to ensure validity, reliability, alignment to standards and appropriateness of use.
2013-A2333A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2333--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 14, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, ARROYO, BENEDETTO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to require annual reports and create a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation or adequate yearly progress for validity, reliability, alignment to stan- dards and appropriateness of use THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Reporting requirements. 1. (a) Not later than September fifteenth of each year, the commissioner of education shall submit to the state board of regents, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly: (i) A written report that conclusively demonstrates the validity, reliability, alignment to the state learning standards established by the department of education (learning standards) and appropriateness of use for its intended purposes for each assessment (noting each instru- ment and the dates of usage) used by the department of education to determine a student's eligibility for a high school diploma, promotion to grade, or measurement of adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of a school or district in the preced- ing school year. Demonstration of assessment validity, reliability, alignment to learning standards and appropriateness of use must be made in accordance with applicable professional assessment guidelines and standards of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) (collectively and as may be modified EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03211-02-4
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