(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Content-based assessment” means testing of the understanding of a student of a predetermined body of knowledge.
(b) “Criterion-referenced assessment” means testing of the knowledge or ability of a student with respect to some standard.
(c) “Performance-based assessment” means testing of the ability of a student to use knowledge and skills to create a complex or multifaceted product or complete a complex task.
(2)(a) The Department of Education shall implement statewide a valid and reliable assessment system for all students that meets technical adequacy standards. The assessment system shall include criterion-referenced assessments including performance-based assessments, content-based assessments, and other valid methods to measure the academic content standards and to identify students who meet or exceed the standards.
(b) The department shall develop the statewide assessment system in mathematics, science, English, history, geography, economics and civics.
(3) School districts and public charter schools shall implement the statewide assessment system in mathematics, science and English. In addition, school districts and public charter schools may implement the statewide assessment system in history, geography, economics and civics.
(4) Each year the resident district shall be accountable for determining the student’s progress toward achieving the academic content standards. Progress toward the academic content standards shall be measured in a manner that clearly enables the student and parents to know whether the student is making progress toward meeting or exceeding the academic content standards. In addition, the district shall adopt a grading system based on the local school district board adopted course content of the district’s curriculum. The grading system shall clearly enable the student and parents to know how well the student is achieving course requirements.
(5) If a student has not met or has exceeded all of the academic content standards, the school district shall make additional services or alternative educational or public school options available to the student.
(6) If the student to whom additional services or alternative educational options have been made available does not meet or exceed the academic content standards within one year, the school district, with the consent of the parents, shall make an appropriate placement, which may include an alternative education program or the transfer of the student to another public school in the district or to a public school in another district that agrees to accept the student. The district that receives the student shall be entitled to payment. The payment shall consist of:
(a) An amount equal to the district expenses from its local revenues for each student in average daily membership, payable by the resident district in the same year; and
(b) Any state and federal funds the attending district is entitled to receive payable as provided in ORS 339.133 (2). [Formerly 335.160; 1995 c.660 §29; 2001 c.269 §1; 2003 c.303 §10; 2005 c.220 §1; 2007 c.858 §22]
Note: The amendments to 329.485 by section 22, chapter 858, Oregon Laws 2007, first apply to the 2008-2009 school year. See section 41, chapter 858, Oregon Laws 2007. The text that applies prior to the 2008-2009 school year is set forth for the user’s convenience.
329.485. (1)(a) The Department of Education shall implement statewide a valid and reliable assessment system for all students that meets technical adequacy standards. The assessment system shall include criterion-referenced assessments including performance-based assessments, content-based assessments, as those terms are defined in ORS 329.075, and other valid methods to measure the academic content standards and to identify students who meet or exceed the standards for each mastery level leading to the Certificate of Initial Mastery, Certificate of Initial Mastery subject area endorsements and the Certificate of Advanced Mastery.
(b) The Department of Education shall develop the statewide assessment system in mathematics, science, English, history, geography, economics and civics.
(2) School districts and public charter schools shall implement the statewide assessment system in mathematics, science and English. In addition, school districts and public charter schools may implement the statewide assessment system in history, geography, economics and civics.
(3) Each year the resident district shall be accountable for determining the student’s progress toward achieving the academic content standards. Progress toward the academic content standards shall be measured in a manner that clearly enables the student and parents to know whether the student is making progress toward meeting or exceeding the academic content standards. In addition, the district shall adopt a grading system based on the local school district board adopted course content of the district’s curriculum. The grading system shall clearly enable the student and parents to know how well the student is achieving course requirements.
(4) If a student has not met or has exceeded all of the academic content standards, the school district shall make additional services or alternative educational or public school options available to the student.
(5) If the student to whom additional services or alternative educational options have been made available does not meet or exceed the academic content standards within one year, the school district, with the consent of the parents, shall make an appropriate placement, which may include an alternative education program or the transfer of the student to another public school in the district or to a public school in another district that agrees to accept the student. The district that receives the student shall be entitled to payment. The payment shall consist of:
(a) An amount equal to the district expenses from its local revenues for each student in average daily membership, payable by the resident district in the same year; and
(b) Any state and federal funds the attending district is entitled to receive payable as provided in ORS 339.133 (2).
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