Common Exams: Fall Data Update Parent Advisory Council February 19, 2013

The Grading Curve Look at final mark percentages for actual courses (multiple years for stability) EXAMPLE: PRE-CALCULUS (2004-12 – 13,206 records) FINAL MARK CURVE ORIGINAL CURVE 24% As (17%) 33% Bs (30%) 27% Cs (26%) 13% Ds (17%) 3% Fs (10%)

Curve Alternative Curve works best when data reflect a normal curve Required subjects (EOCs) follow a normal curve What if most/all students do well? Some Common Exams – like Pre-Calculus Solution: calculate the % of items correct for students and give the higher between curve and percentage

Example A student answers 39 out of 50 items correctly, which is the lowest score in the test distribution The curve would assign an F The actual percentage correct is 39/50, or 78% (which is a C) Student would receive the C

Report Cards High school report cards distributed on February 1 Later than normal date to accommodate brief delay in reporting Common Exams and some EOCs We anticipated only English 2 to be initially recorded as incompletes UPDATE: ENGLISH 2 still not available

English Language Arts I

State (NCDPI) Updates NCDPI will determine if some of the assessments need to be altered The number of items may be decreased to address concerns that the assessments were too long to be completed during the time provided. Spring assessments will have different constructed response items than the fall assessments.

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