Ohio § 3301.0715

§ 3301.0715.

(A)(1) The board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district

shall administer a diagnostic assessment in reading and mathematics adopted or approved

in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code to the following: (a) Each student enrolled in kindergarten, first, second, or third grade. (b) Any student who transfers into the district or to a different school within the district

if each applicable diagnostic assessment was not administered by the district or school

the student previously attended in the current school year, within thirty days after

the date of transfer.  If the district or school into which the student transfers cannot determine whether

the student has taken any applicable diagnostic assessment in the current school year,

the district or school may administer the diagnostic assessment to the student.  However, if a student transfers into the district prior to the administration of

the diagnostic assessments to all students under division (B) of this section, the

district may administer the diagnostic assessments to that student on the date or

dates determined under that division. (2) The district shall administer the kindergarten readiness assessment to each kindergarten

student not earlier than the first day of July of the school year in which the student

is enrolled in kindergarten and not later than the twentieth day of instruction of

that school year.  In no case shall the results of the readiness assessment be used to prohibit a student

from enrolling in kindergarten. (B) Each district board shall administer each diagnostic assessment described in division

(A)(1) of this section at least once annually by the thirtieth day of September to

all students in the appropriate grade level.  The board shall administer a diagnostic assessment to a student with a significant

cognitive disability in accordance with guidelines adopted by the department of education

and workforce.  A district board may administer any diagnostic assessment in the fall and spring

of a school year to measure the amount of academic growth attributable to the instruction

received by students during that school year. (C)  Each district board shall utilize and score the kindergarten readiness assessment

in accordance with rules established by the department of children and youth and shall

utilize and score each diagnostic assessment described in division (A)(1) of this

section in accordance with rules established by the department of education and workforce.  After the administration of the kindergarten readiness assessment or a diagnostic

assessment described in division (A)(1) of this section, each district shall provide

a student's completed assessment, the results of such assessment, and any other accompanying

documents used during the administration of the assessment to the parent of that student.  The district shall include all such documents and information related to a diagnostic

assessment described in division (A)(1) of this section in any plan developed for

the student under division (C) of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code .  Each district shall submit, in the manner prescribed by each department, the results

of the assessments administered under this section as follows: (1) The results of the kindergarten readiness assessment to the department of children

and youth; (2) The results of all diagnostic assessments described in division (A)(1) of this section

to the department of education and workforce pursuant to section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code . The department of children and youth may report school and district level kindergarten

readiness assessment data.  The department of education and workforce may report data from any diagnostic assessment

described in division (A)(1) of this section and may use that data to calculate the

measures prescribed by divisions (B)(1)(g) , (C)(1)(g) , and (D)(1)(h) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code . (D) Each district board shall provide intervention services to students whose diagnostic

assessments described in division (A)(1) of this section show that they are failing

to make satisfactory progress toward attaining the academic standards for their grade

level. (E) Any chartered nonpublic school may elect to administer the kindergarten readiness

assessment to all kindergarten students enrolled in the school.  If the school so elects, the chief administrator of the school shall notify the

director of children and youth not later than the thirty-first day of March prior

to any school year in which the school will administer the assessment.  The department of children and youth shall furnish the assessment to the school

at no cost to the school.  In administering the assessment, the school shall do all of the following: (1) Enter into a written agreement with the department of children and youth specifying

that the school will share each participating student's assessment data with the department

and, that for the purpose of reporting the data to the department, each participating

student will be assigned a data verification code as described in division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code ; (2) Require the assessment to be administered by a teacher certified under section 3301.071 of the Revised Code who either has completed training on administering the kindergarten readiness assessment

or has been trained by another person who has completed such training; (3) Administer the assessment in the same manner as school districts are required to

do under this section and the rules established under division (C) of this section. (F) A school district in which less than eighty per cent of its students score at the

proficient level or higher on the third-grade English language arts assessment prescribed

under section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall establish a reading improvement plan supported by reading specialists.  Prior to implementation, the plan shall be approved by the school district board

of education. (G) As used in this section, “ kindergarten readiness assessment ” means the diagnostic assessment provided by the department of children and youth

under section 5104.52 of the Revised Code .