BP 6162.5

Instruction

 

Student Assessment

 

The Governing Board believes that the primary goal of student assessments should be to help students, parents/guardians and teachers identify individual student's academic accomplishments, progress and areas needing improvement in order to enhance teaching and learning.  

 

The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that assessments are conducted for purposes of determining students' eligibility for and appropriate placement in district programs or need for supplemental instruction.

 

The Board desires to use a variety of evaluation measures to reach the above-stated goal.  To have validity, tests must correspond to the material that is being taught and reliably measure the extent to which students meet specified standards of achievement.

 

The effectiveness of the schools, teachers and district shall be evaluated in part on the basis of these student assessments.

 

Individual Record of Accomplishment

 

The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that each student, by the end of grade 12, has an individual record of accomplishment that includes the following:  (Education Code 60607)

 

1.         The results of any end-of-course examinations taken

 

2.         The results of any vocational education certification examinations taken

 

Legal Reference:

            EDUCATION CODE

            51041             Evaluation of educational program

            51450-51455  Golden State Seal Merit Diploma

            60600-60649  Assessment of academic achievement

            60800             Physical fitness testing

            60810             Assessment of language development

            60850-60856  Exit examination

            CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5

            850-870         Standardized Testing and Reporting program

            880-901         Designated primary language test

            1200-1216     High School Exit Examination

 

Adopted:  10/13/99

Revised:   6/14/06