HOUSE AMENDMENT

    690-100AXA-38                      Bill No. CS/HB 751 & others

    Amendment No. 9A (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Diaz de la Portilla, Melvin, Alexander, and

12  Farkas offered the following:

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14         Amendment 

15         On page 42, line 16 of the bill

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17  insert:

18         (d)  Assessments shall be designed to protect the

19  integrity of the data and prevent score inflation.

20         (e)  The assessment system shall use measures of

21  student learning to determine student, classroom, school, and

22  district statistical distributions.

23         (f)  These distributions shall be determined using

24  available data from the FCAT, and other data collection as

25  deemed appropriate by the Department of Education, to measure

26  the differences in student prior year achievement against the

27  current year achievement or lack thereof, such that the

28  effects of instruction to a student by a teacher, school, and

29  school district may be estimated on a per student and constant

30  basis.

31         (g)  To the extent possible, these distributions shall

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    690-100AXA-38                      Bill No. CS/HB 751 & others

    Amendment No. 9A (for drafter's use only)





 1  be able to be expressed in linear scales such that the effects

 2  of ceiling and floor dispersions are minimized.

 3         (h)  The statistical system shall provide for an

 4  approach which provides for best linear unbiased prediction

 5  for the teacher, school, and school district effects on pupil

 6  progress. These estimates should adequately be able to

 7  determine effects of and compare teachers who teach multiple

 8  subjects to the same groups of students, and team teaching

 9  situations where teachers teach a single subject to multiple

10  groups of students, or other teaching situations as

11  appropriate.

12         1.  The department, in consultation with the Office of

13  Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and

14  other sources as appropriate, shall use recognized approaches

15  to statistical variance and estimating random effects.

16         2.  The approach used by the department shall be

17  approved by the State Board of Education before implementation

18  for pupil progression assessment.

19         (i)  The assessment system must provide diagnostic

20  information on appropriate measures of student learning gains

21  at the student, classroom, school, and district levels to

22  isolate various subpopulations based on previous achievement

23  levels in order to provide diagnostic information for

24  teachers, principals, administrators, and other appropriate

25  persons.

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