Senate Bill 1429

Posted 9 months ago by Cynthia Garrett

SB 1429 has passed and will be affecting all nursing institutions soon. TxLN would like to know what your thoughts are, how this will affect you, and what your plans are going forward.

Please visit the Get Involved: Public Policy link in the left column. Review the legislative session report and the SB 1429 information.

Comments have been enabled for this post; however, if you feel the need to email, you can email Dr. Terry Douglas at tdouglas@galencollege.edu or Jordan Wilson at Jordan.Wilson@MedicalCityHealth.com

Comments

Tracey Cooper 9 months ago

What concerns me most about this bill is that they are now telling us how to assign grades. The bill states you can't make any standardized test more than 10% of your course grade. This is a dangerous precedent, they are mandating how we weight the grades for our students in this instance. What will keep them, in the future, from mandating other ways we assess students or assign grades?

Zaida Denise Forester 9 months ago

This will create wonderful opportunities for nursing educators and institutions to move to project-based learning (PBL)!

Marcia Monghate 8 months ago

I would like to see a definition of Standardized Tests; are they referring to tests like the HESI and ATI? Are there additional tests that would be included in this category. Many of us use Test Banks from our textbooks; will this be considered a standardized test question since the faculty did not write it. Just want to know how to interpret this new mandate.

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