«The most recent review of research on exit exams, done by researchers at the University of Texas, concluded that high
school exit exams do not lead to more college attendance, increased student learning or higher employment.
High
school exit exams do not significantly affect dropout rates, according to a study released last week by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Not exact matches
It doesn't tell us that California has bad elementary education, or that
exit exams are useless, or that we should lower our achievement standards for high
school graduates.
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.
At one end of the spectrum, some wonder if New York should follow the 37 other states that have already eliminated
exit exams amid growing evidence that they don't prepare students for life after high
school.
Texas Students Who
Did Not Pass
Exit Exam Can Still Receive High
School Diploma https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/education/2018/05/01/never-passed-standardized-test-you-might-now-have-state-gives-second-chance-earn-high-
school-diploma/565992002/
I definitely agree with T.L. I know for a fact I deserve my diploma I received ALL of my high
school credits I'm
done with
school but the only thing holding me back from graduating is the
exit exam I've studied I've got help from tutors and still nothing helps.
«Whatever word is convenient or inconvenient for MDE is not important to me as it is to the 649 students last year in Mississippi who
did not get to
exit high
school because they
did not pass the
exam,» responded Rep. Jay Hughes - D.
The Los Angeles pact proposes to
do that using a unique mix of individual and schoolwide testing data — including state standardized test scores, high
school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of attendance, graduation and suspensions.
The judge decided that because Connecticut
does not have «rational» and «verifiable» high
school standards, meaning standards measured by a high
school exit exam, Connecticut diplomas for students in poor districts are «patronizing and illusory.»
Schools do administer a sampling survey of math and literacy, and there is a series of high -
school -
exit / college - entrance
exams that are high stakes for students.
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.»
What
does it mean when states discontinue or change high
school exit exams?