(a) To the extent practicable, the agency shall ensure that any high school end-of-course assessment instrument developed by the agency is developed in such a manner that the assessment instrument may be used to determine the appropriate placement of a student in a course of the same subject matter at an institution of higher education.
(b) A student’s performance on an end-of-course assessment instrument may not be used:
(1) in determining the student’s class ranking for any purpose, including entitlement to automatic college admission under § 51.803 or 51.804; or
(2) as a sole criterion in the determination of whether to admit the student to a general academic teaching institution in this state.

Terms Used In Texas Education Code 39.0232

  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.

(c) Subsection (b)(2) does not prohibit a general academic teaching institution from implementing an admission policy that takes into consideration a student’s performance on an end-of-course assessment instrument in addition to other criteria.
(d) In this section, “general academic teaching institution” has the meaning assigned by § 61.003.

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