53A-1-409. Competency-based education -- Recommendations -- Coordination.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Competency" means a demonstrable acquisition of a specified knowledge, skill, or
ability that has been organized into a hierarchical arrangement leading to higher levels of
knowledge, skill, or ability.
(b) "Competency-based education" means an education approach that requires students to
acquire a competency and includes a classroom structure and operation that aid and facilitate the
acquisition of specified competencies on an individual basis wherein students are allowed to
master and demonstrate competencies as fast as they are able.
(c) "Gain score" means the measured difference of a student's score at the beginning and
end of a time period that may be aggregated at the class, grade, school, and school district levels.
(2) The State Board of Education shall:
(a) provide expertise to and consult with local school boards and school districts relating
to competency-based education and progress-based assessments;
(b) make recommendations to the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee,
including the amount and allocation of public education monies, based upon both new public
education monies and the reallocation of monies required to develop and implement:
(i) competency-based education and progress-based assessments;
(ii) a weighted competency unit that distributes public education monies based on
student achievement resulting from competency-based program objectives, strategies, and
standards;
(iii) a plan to assist students, teachers, schools, and districts that need remediation based
upon Subsections (2)(b)(i) and (ii);
(iv) the reallocation of teaching resources from noncore electives into grades 1-3, 7-12
math, and 7-12 English; and
(v) a teacher development program focused on achieving progress in core academics,
including instruction in explicit, systematic, and intensive phonics for teachers in grades
kindergarten through 3;
(c) assist school districts and charter schools to develop and implement:
(i) competency-based education; and
(ii) the use of gain scores; and
(d) develop and use monetary and nonmonetary incentives, tools, and rewards to
encourage school districts and charter schools to accomplish the items described under
Subsections (2)(a) through (c).
Amended by Chapter 19, 2004 General Session
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