(a) The department shall establish, fund, and implement an innovative benchmark assessment pilot program to provide the Tennessee universal math screener, the Tennessee universal reading screener, and a series of state-adopted benchmark assessments to LEAs and public charter schools to allow teachers to more frequently measure student learning and address student learning loss. The results of the pilot program may be used to determine alternative ways to utilize real-time data to measure student proficiency and to inform instructional practices.
(b) LEAs and public charter schools may use the state-adopted benchmark assessments, the Tennessee universal math screener, the Tennessee universal reading screener, or a universal reading screener approved by the state board of education to measure the academic proficiency of students and to identify priority students for after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps.
(c) The state-adopted benchmark assessments established under this pilot program must be administered as the post-tests required as part of after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, or summer learning camps.
(d) (1) LEAs and public charter schools may authorize teachers in the non-tested grades kindergarten through two (K-2) to use the results of the Tennessee universal reading screener or a universal reading screener approved by the state board of education, as described in § 49-1-905(c), as an approved alternative growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department.(2) If a universal reading screener approved by the state board is administered to pre-kindergarten students at an LEA or public charter school, then the LEA or public charter school shall allow the pre-kindergarten teacher whose students were administered the universal reading screener to use the results of the universal reading screener as an approved alternative growth model for purposes of § 49-6-105(e) or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department.
(1) LEAs and public charter schools may authorize teachers in the non-tested grades kindergarten through two (K-2) to use the results of the Tennessee universal reading screener or a universal reading screener approved by the state board of education, as described in § 49-1-905(c), as an approved alternative growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department.
(2) If a universal reading screener approved by the state board is administered to pre-kindergarten students at an LEA or public charter school, then the LEA or public charter school shall allow the pre-kindergarten teacher whose students were administered the universal reading screener to use the results of the universal reading screener as an approved alternative growth model for purposes of § 49-6-105(e) or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department.
(e) (1) The department shall create a framework to determine a student's projected proficiency level on the English language arts (ELA) portion of the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test based on the student's performance on the Tennessee universal reading screeners administered to the student during the school year.(2) Each vendor that provides a universal reading screener that is approved by the state board of education and that is being administered by an LEA or public charter school to comply with § 49-1-905(c), shall create a framework to determine a student's projected proficiency level on the ELA portion of the TCAP test based on the student's results on the universal reading screeners administered to the student during the school year. Each vendor shall submit the framework required in this subdivision (e)(2) to the department.
(1) The department shall create a framework to determine a student's projected proficiency level on the English language arts (ELA) portion of the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test based on the student's performance on the Tennessee universal reading screeners administered to the student during the school year.
(2) Each vendor that provides a universal reading screener that is approved by the state board of education and that is being administered by an LEA or public charter school to comply with § 49-1-905(c), shall create a framework to determine a student's projected proficiency level on the ELA portion of the TCAP test based on the student's results on the universal reading screeners administered to the student during the school year. Each vendor shall submit the framework required in this subdivision (e)(2) to the department.