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House Bill 1244 |
House Author: Castro |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: West |
House Bill 1244 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to prescribe a single standard or set of standards to effectively measure, rather than reflect, an entering college student's readiness to undertake freshman-level coursework, as demonstrated by current research, for each test designated by the coordinating board for use under the Texas Success Initiative and repeals a requirement for the coordinating board to designate additional tests for use by institutions of higher education under that initiative.
The bill requires an institution that requires a student to enroll in developmental coursework to address deficiencies in the student's college readiness under the Texas Success Initiative to offer a range of developmental coursework or instructional support that includes the integration of technology to efficiently address the student's particular developmental needs and to base developmental coursework on research-based best practices that include certain specified components. The bill requires the coordinating board to adopt rules for the implementation of the requirement that an institution base developmental coursework on research-based best practices and, in consultation with institutions of higher education, to develop and provide professional development programs to faculty and staff who provide developmental coursework to students.
House Bill 1244 requires an institution of higher education to determine when a student is ready to perform freshman-level coursework using learning outcomes developed by the coordinating board, rather than on an individual basis, and authorizes the governing board of an institution of higher education to exempt from the payment of tuition a student who is participating in an approved non-semester-length developmental education intervention.
The bill makes its provisions applicable beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year.