HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 1424

BYRepresentatives Pruitt, Betrozoff, K. Wilson, Walker, P. King, Fuhrman, Jones, Dorn, Rasmussen, Peery, Cole, Day, R. Meyers, Heavey, Phillips, Schoon, Rust, Brumsickle, Sprenkle, Horn, May, Winsley, Bowman, Brough, Beck, Moyer, Ferguson, Wood, and Basich

Adding to provisions on the outcome-based education pilot program.

House Committe on Education

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (17)

      Signed by Representatives Peery, Chair; G. Fisher, Vice Chair; Betrozoff, Ranking Republican Member; Brumsickle, Cole, Dorn, Fuhrman, Holland, Jones, Phillips, Pruitt, Rasmussen, Rayburn, Schoon, Valle, Walker and K. Wilson.

House Staff:Susan Patrick (786-7111)

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION FEBRUARY 23, 1989

BACKGROUND:

In 1988 the Legislature directed the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct a study of outcome based education and make recommendation on the development and field testing of such a system.  The Temporary Committee on Assessment and Accountability of Educational Outcomes presented their report in January 1989.

SUMMARY:

Districts participating in outcome based pilot projects may request waivers of statutes or rules under the same criteria applied to schools participating in the Schools for the Twenty-first Century Pilot Program.  An outcome based pilot program advisory committee shall be established.  The committee shall advise the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the selection and conduct of outcome based pilot projects.  The advisory committee shall include representatives of one representative of each selected school district and two representatives from the Temporary Committee on Assessment and Accountability of Educational Outcomes.

An appropriation of $36,000 is made to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the development of a model writing assessment at three grade levels including definition, measurement of key curriculum concepts, definition of what constitutes mastery, provisions for remediation, and a follow-up survey for high school graduates.

An appropriation of $20,000 is made to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the development and testing of an instrument to identify successful schools.

An appropriation of $518,000 is made to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for field testing outcome measures in 10 districts.

The total appropriation is $574,000.

Appropriation:    $574,000 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Fiscal Note:      Requested January 25, 1989.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Representative Pruitt.

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony For:    We have entered a new era in education.  Rather than judging success on a course completion basis we are moving toward the identification of basic skills which a student must perform.  These skills are the core competencies.  This approach to education is a massive change in perspective requiring a well defined assessment component.  The aim of outcome based education is to identify the mission of the school and to design the curriculum to cause students to achieve the competency in the basic skills we have defined.  These projects are as innovative as any of the projects involved in the Schools for the Twenty-first Century Program.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.