Bill Text: IA HF2280 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to subject and performance-based assessments administered prior to a student’s completion of a practitioner preparation program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2007.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-04 - Amendment S-5222 filed. S.J. 889. [HF2280 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2280-Amended.html

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House File 2280 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2007)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 6, 2018)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to subject and performance=based assessments
  2    administered prior to a student's completion of a
  3    practitioner preparation program, and including effective
  4    date and retroactive applicability provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2018, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  (1)  Administer a preprofessional skills test offered
  1  4 by a nationally recognized testing service to practitioner
  1  5 preparation program admission candidates. Rules adopted shall
  1  6 require institutions to deny admission to the program to any
  1  7 candidate who does not successfully pass the test.
  1  8    (2)  Administer, prior to a student's completion of the
  1  9 practitioner preparation program and subject to the director's
  1 10 approval, subject assessments designed by a nationally
  1 11 recognized testing service that measure pedagogy and knowledge
  1 12 of at least one subject area; or, a valid and reliable
  1 13 subject=area=specific, performance=based assessment for
  1 14 preservice teacher candidates, centered on student learning.
  1 15 A student shall not successfully complete the program unless
  1 16 the student achieves scores above the twenty=fifth percentile
  1 17 nationally on the assessments administered pursuant to this
  1 18 subparagraph.
  1 19    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate
  1 20 importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 21    Sec. 3.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies
  1 22 retroactively to July 1, 2012, for individuals who completed
  1 23 the course requirements for an approved practitioner
  1 24 preparation program but attained an assessment score below that
  1 25 required for successful completion of the program under section
  1 26 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph (2), Code
  1 27 2018.  Such an individual shall be deemed to have successfully
  1 28 completed the practitioner preparation program for purposes
  1 29 of section 256.16 and is eligible to submit an application
  1 30 for an initial license to the board of educational examiners,
  1 31 which may issue the initial license for a period of time at its
  1 32 discretion.
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