STAND. COM. REP. NO.1495

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.R. No. 65

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.R. No. 65 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE GATHERING AND ANALYZING OF LONGITUDINAL DATA ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND THE SUBMISSION OF AN ANNUAL REPORT, INCLUDING IDENTIFICATION OF KEY INDICATORS OF PERFORMANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the gathering, analysis, and annual reporting of longitudinal data on student achievement, including the identification of key indicators of performance.

The Department of Education submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that longitudinal research on the factors contributing to student achievement is highly desirable, but requires staff resources beyond the Department of Education's present capacity. Your Committee further finds that a collaborative effort between the Department of Education, the University of Hawaii College of Education, and the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, to develop a data collection system and implementation plan would be a good place to start to address how to identify key indicators of student achievement.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the title to request the development of a plan for the gathering, analyzing, and reporting of longitudinal data on student achievement;

(2) Changing the BE IT RESOLVED clause to request the Department of Education to work with the University of Hawaii College of Education and the Hawaii Educational Policy Center on the development of the plan for the gathering, analyzing, and reporting of longitudinal data on student achievement;

(3) Deleting three BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clauses that ask for the reports to include comparative analyses of specific data sets and indicators; and

(4) Deleting the BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clause requesting the College of Education and the Hawaii Educational Policy Center to assist the Department in the collection, analysis, and reporting of longitudinal data.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 65, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 65, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair