"What are the benefits of an End of Course Assessment model?
The EOC exams shift the emphasis from high stakes testing to teacher instruction with 80% of a student’s course grade based on locally created teacher-designed content."


They aren't even trying to make sense.

Anonymous wrote:Is there one each semester? Someone posted the link to the testing schedule on another thread and it looks like there are two tests per year.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/sharedaccountability/testing/hs_assessmenttimeline.pdf

No. Just one test. The January testing window is usually for students who failed the test the previous year to retake it. Especially seniors who need it for graduation. Remember there are still 10th, 11th, and 12th graders who fall under the previous requirements.

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Anonymous wrote:Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?

Maryland site said six days.

Which Maryland site said that?

Oops. Nine days.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2023/0725/COMAR13A.03.02GraduationRequirementsHighSchoolsStudents.pdf

Thank you. Reading that document, it sounds as if the State also knows the grade conversion procedure. Will they share it in advance of students taking the exams?

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I had been thinking that they would handle this like they used to do final exams.

For those that haven’t been around long enough, final exams were 25% of a semester grade, with each quarter being worth 37.5%. But instead of doing that calculation with actual percentages, each quarter and the exam got a letter grade, and then the final calculation was done using quality points (A=4, B = 3 etc.) There was a conversion table for semester grade that looked like AAC=A, ABC=B, etc. It was very generous rounding and meant that kids who got CC quarter grades could totally fail the exam and still have a C. So, kids didn’t care, exams were failed, and MCPS stopped giving them.

There’s too much freak out going on in this thread. The state isn’t about to implement anything that will suddenly mean kids are failing Biology. They have enough data to know where to set cut scores/grades and they piloted it last year so the big districts know how it will affect students overall. We just haven’t seen the final details on actual implementation. Supposedly principals have already been told and RTs find out tomorrow.

Meanwhile, if you want to know how your kid is projected to do, go look at your 8th grade MISA scores. It’s the same style test. Provide kids a stimulus with different types of data and a paragraph, then have them analyze and make sense of it.

Is there one each semester? Someone posted the link to the testing schedule on another thread and it looks like there are two tests per year.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/sharedaccountability/testing/hs_assessmenttimeline.pdf

Look at the practice exams; these are not very hard.

*Bio field (sorry)

My DS is does not test well and I am very concerned, especially for Biology since he wants to go into Bio filed right now. Are there practice tests for these?