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