2023 Tennessee Code
Title 49 - EDUCATION (§§ 49-1-NEW — 49-50-1703)
Chapter 1 - STATE ADMINISTRATION (§§ 49-1-NEW — 49-1-1208)
Part 6 - PERFORMANCE GOALS AND ASSESSMENT (§§ 49-1-601 — 49-1-620)
Section 49-1-617 - Development of policy by which student scores on achievement tests comprise percentage of final grade in certain subjects in grades three through eight - Optional policy for grades nine through twelve

• (a) Each local board of education shall develop a policy by which student scores on the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program's grades three through eight (3-8) achievement tests shall comprise a percentage of the student's final grade for the spring semester in the subject areas of mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies. In the 2017-2018 school year and each school year thereafter, the local board shall determine the percentage within a range of zero percent (0%) to no more than twenty-five percent (25%) for grades three through five (3-5), and within a range of no less than ten percent (10%) to no more than twenty-five percent (25%) for grades six through eight (6-8).

• (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), if an LEA does not receive its students' TCAP scores, including all achievement test and end-of-course examination scores for grades nine through twelve (9-12), at least five (5) instructional days before the end of the course, then the LEA may choose not to include its students' TCAP scores, including all achievement test and end-of-course examination scores for grades nine through twelve (9-12), in the students' final grades in the subject areas of mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies.

• (c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), each local board of education may choose the percentage within the range of zero percent (0%) to fifteen percent (15%) that scores from the TNReady assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year shall count on a student's final grade for the spring semester.

• (d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), scores on Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests, which include, but are not limited to, TNReady assessments, English learner assessments, alternate TCAP assessments, and end-of-course examinations, administered in the 2019-2020 school year shall not comprise a percentage of a student's final grade for the spring semester in the subject areas of mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies, unless including TCAP test scores results in a higher final grade for the student.

• (e) Notwithstanding subsection (a), each local board of education may choose the percentage, within the range of zero percent (0%) to twenty-five percent (25%), that scores from the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests administered to students in grades three through twelve (3-12) in the 2020-2021 school year count on a student's final grade.

Amended by 2021EX1 Tenn. Acts, ch. 2, s 10, eff. 2/3/2021.

Amended by 2020 Tenn. Acts, ch. 652, s 4, eff. 4/2/2020.

Amended by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 881, s 2, eff. 5/3/2018.

Amended by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 817, s 1, eff. 4/27/2018.

Amended by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 192, s 7, eff. 4/19/2017.

Amended by 2015 Tenn. Acts, ch. 256, s 1, eff. 4/24/2015.

Acts 2010 , ch. 1127, § 1.