Wawasee GQE results down slightly from 2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
SYRACUSE -ÊResults are in for the fall 2002 grade 10 Graduation Qualifying Examination, and Wawasee High School results are slightly disappointing.
"We are down," reported Wawasee Schools administrative assistant Joy Swartzentruber.
She reported 69 percent of the students were above the standard in math, compared to 72 percent last year. Twenty-seven percent were below the standard.
In English/language arts, 69 percent of the students were above the standard, compared to 75 percent of last year's sophomores. Twenty-nine percent were below the standard.
And in both mathematics and English/language arts, 61 percent were above the standard compared to 65 percent last year. Twenty percent of the students were below the standard in both.
Swartzentruber said they went back and looked at this year's sophomores' ISTEP scores and they, too, were lower than last year's sophomores' ISTEP scores.
She also reported that at its Nov. 22 meeting, the Indiana State Board of Education adopted a resolution changing the makeup of the mathematics portion of the GQE beginning in fall 2004. This year's eighth-grade students will be taking the GQE that year. Seventy percent of the mathematics portion of the exam will cover the cumulative mathematics academic standards through eighth grade and 30 percent will cover all of the algebra I academic standards.
"This does have an effect on Wawasee schools," she said.
She said the goal will be to get more students into algebra I by the end of their freshman year. She agreed with board president Brian Dawes that changes will have to be made at the middle school level regarding algebra . [[In-content Ad]]
SYRACUSE -ÊResults are in for the fall 2002 grade 10 Graduation Qualifying Examination, and Wawasee High School results are slightly disappointing.
"We are down," reported Wawasee Schools administrative assistant Joy Swartzentruber.
She reported 69 percent of the students were above the standard in math, compared to 72 percent last year. Twenty-seven percent were below the standard.
In English/language arts, 69 percent of the students were above the standard, compared to 75 percent of last year's sophomores. Twenty-nine percent were below the standard.
And in both mathematics and English/language arts, 61 percent were above the standard compared to 65 percent last year. Twenty percent of the students were below the standard in both.
Swartzentruber said they went back and looked at this year's sophomores' ISTEP scores and they, too, were lower than last year's sophomores' ISTEP scores.
She also reported that at its Nov. 22 meeting, the Indiana State Board of Education adopted a resolution changing the makeup of the mathematics portion of the GQE beginning in fall 2004. This year's eighth-grade students will be taking the GQE that year. Seventy percent of the mathematics portion of the exam will cover the cumulative mathematics academic standards through eighth grade and 30 percent will cover all of the algebra I academic standards.
"This does have an effect on Wawasee schools," she said.
She said the goal will be to get more students into algebra I by the end of their freshman year. She agreed with board president Brian Dawes that changes will have to be made at the middle school level regarding algebra . [[In-content Ad]]