Relating to the reporting of certain assessment scores by approved practitioner preparation programs

This bill eliminates a requirement that higher education institutions providing practitioner preparation administer a preprofessional skills test offered by a nationally recognized testing service to program admission candidates, as well as a provision directing that the state board of education’s rules require institutions offering such a program to deny admission to the program to any candidate who does not successfully pass the test. The bill instead requires that if an institution offers the test, the institution must report to the department of education by August annually the percentage of students whose scores on the tests administered during the prior fiscal year were above, at, and below the minimum passing score set by the institution, as well as report any services or opportunities to retake the test the institution may make available to a student who fails the test. The department must compile the reports and publish the compiled information on the department’s internet site.