Scoobmaster
13th November 2003, 09:13 AM
What a great state I llive in. The NYS board of regents was a joke when I graduated back in 1987, and it seems to just keep getting worse.
"Students who took a controversial high school physics exam in 2002 or 2003 would see their scores increased under a plan state officials are expected to adopt today.
The state Education Department, which initially resisted the idea, is now recommending adjusting the test scores for more than 86,000 students. The plan goes today to the Board of Regents, which sets state education policy. Board members had urged the department to adjust the scores at an October meeting.
Passing rates on the exam fell from 82 percent from 1999 through 2001 to 63 percent in 2002 and 53 percent in 2003.
Schools complained, and regents who studied the problem concluded the state had made it too difficult for students to pass the test. At last month's meeting, they told the Education Department to rescore the 2002 and 2003 tests so students did not have to answer as many questions correctly to pass. ......"
So to make our schools look better, we just lower the bar on what is considered a passing grade. Good move :rolleyes:
Full article can be read here (http://pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to111303s45444.shtml)
"Students who took a controversial high school physics exam in 2002 or 2003 would see their scores increased under a plan state officials are expected to adopt today.
The state Education Department, which initially resisted the idea, is now recommending adjusting the test scores for more than 86,000 students. The plan goes today to the Board of Regents, which sets state education policy. Board members had urged the department to adjust the scores at an October meeting.
Passing rates on the exam fell from 82 percent from 1999 through 2001 to 63 percent in 2002 and 53 percent in 2003.
Schools complained, and regents who studied the problem concluded the state had made it too difficult for students to pass the test. At last month's meeting, they told the Education Department to rescore the 2002 and 2003 tests so students did not have to answer as many questions correctly to pass. ......"
So to make our schools look better, we just lower the bar on what is considered a passing grade. Good move :rolleyes:
Full article can be read here (http://pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to111303s45444.shtml)