Sentences with phrase «about their exit exams»

Matt Barnum looks at what states are doing about their exit exams now that they are using Common Core - aligned tests, which are harder than the old state tests they used.

In an article for The 74, Matt Barnum looks at what states are doing about their exit exams now that they are using Common Core - aligned tests,

Doug McRae, a retired educational measurement specialist, said he thought the suspension was premature before a decision is made about the exit exam's future.

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Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

The committee tosses out every exit - exam study (save three) that has ever been conducted on the grounds that it is not possible «to draw causal conclusions about the overall effects of test - based incentives» (that is, the very same criteria the committee ignored in considering school - level accountability).

NCLB did not include such a requirement, and according to a September 2012 study of the Center on Education Policy, only about half of states (26) on their own require that students pass state high - school exit exams to earn a diploma.

States with exit exams generally peg them to a 10th - grade level, which ought to tell you something about official expectations.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

One study found that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects concentrated among black students.

From the time they enroll, we can provide newcomer students and their families with information — in their home language — about the grade - based promotion system, high school graduation requirements, standardized testing, college applications, high school exit exams, and the process of class programming.

The bill calls for the superintendent of public instruction to form an advisory panel to make recommendations about the continuation of an exit exam or «alternative pathways» for graduation.

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The positive news about graduation rates was coupled with continued upward trends in scores on the state's High School Proficiency Assessments (HSPA), the required exit exam in language arts and math given to all juniors.