SB 59 would assign letter grades A,B,C,D, or F to schools based on student achievement. Senator Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, sponsored this bill emulating Florida's school's grading system.
This bill would replace the U-PASS system that was used by Utah in the past.
Are standard tests an accurate measure of a student's knowledge or a more accurate measure of the student's ability to handle the stress of taking a test well?
Another difficulty with tests is always the issue of the questions and whether they are confusing and ambiguous.
In one education class I took at BYU, I got the high score on a quiz and I hadn't read the reading assignment which the quiz was based on. It turned out two questions were confusing to the students who read the text prior to taking the quiz because the questions were poorly written.
Does this grading system give the schools with the largest number of minorities and special needs students lower grades than the schools without or with a small number of minority and special education students?
Will the end result be this bill will make it harder for minority students to be accepted in Utah Schools?
SB 59 text
SB 59 Committee Vote
SB 59 Status page
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Deseret News January 2011
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