Sentences with phrase «exit exam systems»

Curriculum - based external exit exam systems had by far the greatest effects on test scores.

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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.

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

This is very different from the MCT - based accountability systems of the 1970s, under which students were held accountable, for example, for passing a high school exit exam if they were to receive a regular high school diploma.

And his proposals for a school rating system and high school exit exam have been ratified by the Senate.

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.

In many Asian countries (Japan, Korea, Singapore), performance on exit exams is the key to access to the university system.

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.

Jasmine and students like her are the reason New York State needs to rethink its stringent system of five so - called «exit exams» that students must pass in order to receive a high school degree.

In 1999, David Driscoll was named Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, where he has overseen the implementation of the MCAS high school exit exam, the school and district accountability system, the educator certification test, and significant reforms to special education.

While New Jersey moves toward a new school testing system in 2015, it is staying with a North Carolina - based company to conduct two more years of the state's decade - old high school exit exam and its alternative test.

The issue of how to integrate disabled students into the CAHSEE system dates back almost as long as the exit exam itself.

The authors conclude that policymakers should reevaluate the utility of the high school exit exam in California's accountability system.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

For example, by completing the parent curriculum training, parents learned that students need to complete at least 240 credits and pass the California High School Exit Exam to graduate from high school, and that a series of exams are required to get into college or university systems.