Establishing Cut-scores for Praxis II: Elementary Education Content Knowledge Test and the Health and Physical Education Content Knowledge Test
Resolution Number 2001-30
July 26, 2001
WHEREAS, Section 22.1-298 of the Code of Virginia authorizes the Board of Education to prescribe the requirements for the licensure of teachers that include a professional teacher’s examination prescribed by the board; and
WHEREAS, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) announced new Praxis II tests, the Elementary Education: Content Knowledge Test and the Health and Physical Education: Content Knowledge Test; and
WHEREAS, validation and standard setting studies were completed for the Elementary Education: Content Knowledge Test and the Health and Physical Education: Content Knowledge Test; and
WHEREAS, the Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure recommended cut scores in its annual report for the 2000-01 year;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Education that effective
July 1, 2002, the cut score of 143 be established for the Elementary Education: Content Knowledge Test and the cut score of 151 be established for the Health and Physical Education: Content Knowledge Test.
Adopted in Richmond, Virginia, This Twenty-Sixth Day of July in the Year 2001.
Signature:
Kirk T. Schroder, President
Board of Education
Adopted in the Minutes of the Virginia Board of Education
July 26, 2001
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