Not exact matches
Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade
exam, which was also a high - stakes
exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).
That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to
pass the 10th - grade
exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable
rating.
Working with a large population of at - risk students, the Big Picture school in Providence boasts a 90 percent graduation
rate, and Oakland's MetWest senior class had the highest
pass rate on the California High School
Exit Exam of Oakland's eighteen high schools.
Early evaluations showed that, compared to statewide averages, students in these programs had higher graduation
rates and better
pass rates on the California High School
Exit Exam.
In the 19 states that have such
exit exams, the percentage of English - language learners who
pass the mathematics
exit exam on the first try is 30 to 40 percentage points lower than the overall initial
pass rates, which range from 70 to 90 percent.
When the state took control of the district in 2009, the
pass rate on the high school algebra
exit exam was only 45 percent.
As a result, homework completion
rates, grade point averages, and the
pass rate on the high school
exit exam have all substantially improved.
Darling - Hammond, Rustique - Forrester, and Pecheone (2005) reported that graduation
rates stayed the same or declined slightly from 1998 to 2001 in five states that required students to
pass an
exit exam (Indiana, North Carolina, New York, Florida, and South Carolina).