CEP's 11th annual report on state high
school exit exams finds that states are embracing higher standards on their exit exams, which means schools and students will feel the impact.
Not exact matches
The report also
found that 28 states require high
school seniors to pass an
exit exam — a test that requires students to achieve minimum competency — to receive a high
school diploma.
From the Common Core State Standards to high
school exit exams to state testing and student achievement, it can all be
found here.
When Bishop examined the effects of high -
school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he
found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even
found some evidence of the opposite.
One study
found that
exit exam requirements reduced high
school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects concentrated among black students.
This implies that the negative impacts of high
school exit exam policies on graduation rates
found in other studies are more likely a result of reduced graduation rates of very low - achieving students than of discouragement of marginally low - achieving students.
After examining our students» contexts, we may
find that
find it appealing to pursue success on an
exam that will increase students» life opportunities but is not aligned to the course they are teaching (such as a High School Exit Exam that measures mastery of some components of algebra (your course) but also components of language arts, chemistry, biology, economics, geometry, U.S. history and world histo
exam that will increase students» life opportunities but is not aligned to the course they are teaching (such as a High
School Exit Exam that measures mastery of some components of algebra (your course) but also components of language arts, chemistry, biology, economics, geometry, U.S. history and world histo
Exam that measures mastery of some components of algebra (your course) but also components of language arts, chemistry, biology, economics, geometry, U.S. history and world history).