Section 315 – Waiver of requirement to administer certain assessments.
Effective 4/22/2020 53E-4-315. Waiver of requirement to administer certain assessments. (1) A statutory requirement to administer an assessment with which an LEA or the state board has not fully complied at the time of statewide school closures beginning on March 16, 2020, is waived for the 2019-20 school year. (2) Nothing in this section prohibits […]
Section 311 – Analysis of results — Staff professional development.
Effective 5/5/2021 53E-4-311. Analysis of results — Staff professional development. (1) The state board, through the state superintendent, shall develop an online data reporting tool to analyze the results of statewide assessments. (2) The online data reporting tool shall include components designed to: (a) assist school districts and individual schools to use the results of […]
Section 312 – Preparation for tests.
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-312. Preparation for tests. (1) School district employees may not conduct any specific instruction or preparation of students that would be a breach of testing ethics, such as the teaching of specific test questions. (2) School district employees who administer the test shall follow the standardization procedures in the test administration manual for […]
Section 313 – Construction of part.
Effective 1/24/2018 53E-4-313. Construction of part. Nothing in this part shall be construed to mean or represented to require that graduation from a high school or promotion to another grade is in any way dependent upon successful performance of any test administered as a part of the testing program established under this part. Renumbered and […]
Section 314 – School readiness assessment.
Effective 5/4/2022 53E-4-314. School readiness assessment. (1) As used in this section: (a) “School readiness assessment” means a preschool entry and exit profile that measures literacy, numeracy, and lifelong learning practices developed in a student. (b) “School readiness program” means a preschool program: (i) in which a student participates in the year before the student […]
Section 307 – Benchmark assessments in reading — Report to parent.
Effective 5/4/2022 53E-4-307. Benchmark assessments in reading — Report to parent. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Competency” means a demonstrable acquisition of a specified knowledge, skill, or ability that has been organized into a hierarchical arrangement leading to higher levels of knowledge, skill, or ability. (b) “Diagnostic assessment” means an assessment that measures […]
Section 307.5 – Mathematics benchmark assessment.
Effective 7/1/2020 53E-4-307.5. Mathematics benchmark assessment. (1) As used in this section, “early mathematics benchmark assessment” or “benchmark assessment” means a standardized assessment to measure the acquisition of mathematics skills in kindergarten and grades 1 through 3 that includes predictive indicators of academic achievement based on measures of early mathematics, computation, and problem solving. (2) […]
Section 308 – Unique student identifier — Coordination of higher education and public education information technology systems — Coordination of preschool and public education information technology systems.
Effective 7/1/2022 53E-4-308. Unique student identifier — Coordination of higher education and public education information technology systems — Coordination of preschool and public education information technology systems. (1) As used in this section, “unique student identifier” means an alphanumeric code assigned to each public education student for identification purposes, which: (a) is not assigned to […]
Section 309 – Grade level specification change.
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-309. Grade level specification change. (1) The state board may change a grade level specification for the administration of specific assessments under this part to a different grade level specification or a competency-based specification if the specification is more consistent with patterns of school organization. (2) (a) If the state board changes a […]
Section 310 – Scoring — Reports of results.
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-310. Scoring — Reports of results. (1) For a statewide assessment that requires the use of a student answer sheet, a local school board or charter school governing board shall submit all answer sheets on a per-school and per-class basis to the state superintendent for scoring unless the assessment requires scoring by a […]