The purpose of this amendment is adopt the active assessments currently approved by the U.S. Department of Education as appropriate for use in adult education programs when pre-testing to determine educational functioning level of students and post-testing for documenting student’s learning gains, to provide procedures for pre- and post-testing for purposes of measuring and reporting student learning gains, to clarify the adult education co-enrollment program option for students, update the teacher qualifications for adult education teachers, and delete references to the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (APA, AERA, NCME, 1999) because those standards are met by test publishers in the approval of the assessments and standards for test administration and security are addressed in other State Board of Education rules, and to require appropriate accommodations for English language learners.