15585201, 6A-6.014 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

Home

Florida Department of State and Division of Library and Information Services

Notice: 15585201

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division:

State Board of Education

Chapter:

SPECIAL PROGRAMS I

Overview

RULE:

6A-6.014

General Requirements for Adult General Education Program

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this amendment is adopt the active assessments currently approved by the U.S. Department of Education as appropriate for use in adult education programs when pre-testing to determine educational functioning level of students and post-testing for documenting student’s learning gains, to provide procedures for pre- and post-testing for purposes of measuring and reporting student learning gains, to clarify the adult education co-enrollment program option for students, update the teacher qualifications for adult education teachers, and delete references to the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (APA, AERA, NCME, 1999) because those standards are met by test publishers in the approval of the assessments and standards for test administration and security are addressed in other State Board of Education rules, and to require appropriate accommodations for English language learners.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Department of Education approves and provides states the acceptable assessments appropriate for use in adult education programs in determining educational functioning level of students and in documenting learning gains of students in adult education programs.  As changes occur, the updated list is posted in the Federal Register.  The Florida Department of Education amends this rule to adopt the updated list of approved assessments as the U.S. Department of Education posts changes.  In addition, this amendment will clarify the adult education co-enrollment program for high school students and update the teacher qualifications for adult education teachers.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

1001.02(1), 1004.93(9), 1011.80(11) Florida Statutes.

LAW:

1004.93, 1011.80(10) Florida Statutes.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

1/26/2015 Vol. 41/16

COMMENTS:

From 1/26/2015 To 2/16/2015 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

Under Florida law, E-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your E-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.