Abstract. Twenty-Six States Currently Have An Exit Exam

The American College Testing (ACT), 2010 concluded that a large number of high school students and high school graduates do not possess the knowledge and skills for college level work or career training. With the creation and implementation of common core standards, states and school districts have a clear set of student expectations to target

Education plays an important role in every person’s future. Not only does it enhance a person’s intellect, but it allows them to discover what they want to become. For the past years, high school students were having trouble graduating and when Texas ranked the lowest in the population that received a high school diploma, the state decided to minimize the amount of exams students had to pass. Although Texas students became successful in graduating, this way of graduating harms the student because they were unable to understand the basics in their education. The reduction of End-of-course exams from fifteen to five and later to three motivate students, but also teaches them that they don’t need to work hard.

State tests have existed as a main subject is high school for many years now. It

All citizens go through the kindergarten, all the way to their senior year. Hall, Hutchison and White (2015) report that teachers having less experience in the classroom have less acquaintance with the standards than those with more. Thus, there is the need for initiating pre-service teacher education programs in aide of the common core state standard in order to put more emphasis on the standard and generally in learning. At every level, the American education system allows students to be assessed using different evaluations on Science, Mathematics and English Language arts (Barnett and Fay, 2013). Nevertheless, a number of schools in the United States of America have upgraded their state standards and embraced the Common Core State Standard in the recent past. This development has given the entire world a platform for standardizing tests for various subjects such as reading skills, writing, and

The 1980s brought a new reform movement in education, accompanied by a new emphasis on testing. The effort to improve education at all levels included the use of standardized tests to provide accountability for what students are learning. Minimum competency tests, achievement tests, and screening instruments were used to ensure that students from preschool through college reached the desired educational goals and achieved the minimum standards of education that were established locally or by the state education agency. As we continue in a new century, these concerns have increased.

Education in the United States has long been a concerned issue for teachers, parents, and communities. It is a major political topic, in which government has shown continuous efforts to compare and evaluate standards from state to state by creating and monitoring various programs for overall academic improvement across the country.

Not only do standardized tests frequently lead to a lack of learning, but they also limit the learning capabilities of more successful and motivated districts. The requirements of the NCLB Act are strict enough that, in order to meet them, teachers must vastly reduce the depth and variety of their curricula (Karp). As schools begin to view standardized exams as their sole opportunity for funding, and as teachers begin to see high test scores as their only guarantee of not losing their job, schools limit their material to the narrow guidelines of the state (Orr). Creativity is suppressed, bright students are unable to meet their potentials, and school time is wasted on test-taking strategies, all because of the national government?s threat of sanctions

On January 8, 2002, former President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law, requiring all states to test students in reading and in math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school (Klein). This testing was designed to, as the act states, “leave no child behind.” However, because of this testing, many children are falling behind because of this very idea: standardized testing. For high school students specifically, standardized testing is the ultimate factor in whether the students are “college ready” by the school’s terms or not. A test where bubbling A, B, C, or D determines whether or not

Twenty-six states currently have an exit exam for high school seniors. Graduates tend to enter the workforce with few basic skills or none at all. While others attend a university and are not as proficient as the professor assumes. This research paper will discuss, if basic skills are defined the same nationally, are the SAT and / or ACT identified as a basic skills exit exam, and lastly, discuss the impact the exit exam may have on

An exit exam is a test in which students must pass in order to graduate from high school and receive a diploma. “This is a test in which students must demonstrate their mastery of basic academic skills. In 2009, 24 states required high school students to take a standardized exit exam in order to receive their diplomas. As more and more states add an exit exam to graduation requirements, some educational policy researchers have been questioning the fairness and effectiveness of such tests. An exit exam or exit examination is a test a student may be required to take in order to show proficiency in a class, in a major subject in college, or as in the case with high school to exhibit basic proficiency in math and English

students who take Standards of Learning (SOL) end of course tests and graduation rates. As a

First of all, in order to get into college students will take a huge standardized test which measures a student’s general knowledge, so the same should be done in order to graduate high school. Many students and parents may argue that a test on how well a student can retain knowledge is not a proper indicator of their future success. However, that is exactly what they will be tested on while trying to get into college. In order to get into a university, it is necessary to take, and do well on either the SAT or ACT. Similar to the SAT and the ACT, exit exams must be of the appropriate rigor and difficulty. There are

Students from any high school in the U.S. should take a basic skills test. After all the years of high school the students should pass a basic skills test because it will be important in the future. Taking the test can improve your chances of going to college. It also tells you if you are ready for even graduating. It can also help you understand many things. The test can challenge your life skills to the test.

Students spend all four years of high school passing classes to their best ability and or making up the classes. Those students have to pass tests all year round and finally are ready to graduate they should not have to pass another "basic knowledge" test just to graduate. The test should not determine the student being able to graduate when they spend four years earning the right to graduate.

• Create new tests with required proportion of questions aimed at measurement of trainee’s knowledge, comprehension and application;