Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, and any other entity or individual designated by the Governor to participate in the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or any related interstate consortium, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, interim and formative assessment tools for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided through membership in that consortium. Existing law requires the interim assessments to be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning.
This bill would require formative assessment tools offered pursuant to those provisions to also be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers that they may use to continually adjust instruction to improve pupil learning. The bill would require the department to ensure that test items that appeared on prior administrations of the summative assessment, and that are no longer in use, are released for use by teachers, and to ensure, among other things, that the released items are identified by the standard or standards assessed, are accessible online without requiring an account, and are presented separately from other formative assessment resources currently produced by the consortium.

Statutes affected:
AB908: 60642.6 EDC
02/20/19 - Introduced: 60642.6 EDC
04/09/19 - Amended Assembly: 60642.6 EDC
04/29/19 - Amended Assembly: 60642.6 EDC
01/07/20 - Amended Assembly: 60642.6 EDC