California Education Code

§ 60642.5

EDC § 60642.5 Effective Sep 30, 2008Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 33 · Ch. 5 · Art. 4

Statute text

(a)The Superintendent, with approval of the state board, shall provide for the development of an assessment instrument, to be called the California Standards Tests, that measures the degree to which pupils are achieving the academically rigorous content standards and performance standards, to the extent standards have been adopted by the state board. These standards-based achievement tests shall contain the subject areas specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 60603 for grades 2 to 8, inclusive, and shall include an assessment in history/social science in at least one elementary or middle school grade level selected by the state board and science in at least one elementary or middle school grade level selected by the state board, and the core curriculum areas specified in paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 60603 for grades 9 to 11, inclusive, except that history-social science shall not be included in the grade 9 assessment unless the state board adopts academic content standards for a grade 9 history-social science course, and shall include, at a minimum, a direct writing assessment once in elementary school and once in middle or junior high school and other items of applied academic skill if deemed valid and reliable and if resources are made available for their use.

(b)In approving a contract for the development or administration of the California Standards Tests, the state board shall consider each of the following criteria:

(1)The ability of the contractor to produce valid, reliable individual pupil scores.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 757, Sec. 19. Effective September 30, 2008.