256.17 - POSTSECONDARY COURSE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
256.17 POSTSECONDARY COURSE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
1. The department shall establish and facilitate a postsecondary
course audit committee which shall annually audit postsecondary
courses offered to high school students in accordance with chapter
261E.
2. The committee shall include but not be limited to
representatives from the kindergarten through grade twelve education
community, community colleges, and regents universities.
3. The committee shall establish a sampling technique that
randomly selects courses for audit. The audit shall include but not
be limited to a review of the course syllabus, teacher
qualifications, examples of student products, and results of student
assessments. Standards for review shall be established by the
committee and approved by the department. Audit findings shall be
submitted to the institutions providing the classes audited and shall
be posted on the department's internet site.
4. If the committee determines that a postsecondary course
offered to high school students in accordance with chapter 261E does
not meet the standards established by the committee pursuant to
subsection 3, the course shall not be eligible for future
supplementary weighting under section 257.11. If the institution
makes changes to the course sufficient to cause the course to meet
the standards of the committee, the committee may reinstate the
eligibility of the course for future supplementary weighting under
section 257.11. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1181, §44