Seniors and Final Exam Exemptions

Please respond to the 3 item Quia survey concerning Final Exams. I will not share your names but ask that you enter your name so I can contact those who do not respond. Thanks!
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  1. It is understood that seniors cannot be exempt from EOC's and CTE assessments. Do you currently allow seniors to be exempt from all other final exams?
    No
    Yes


  1. If we, as a county, put a policy in place that allows seniors to be exempt from MSLs, then we must have some other measure in place to collect student performance data and submit it to the state. The only other measure that I can think of is a test designed locally. In other words, if we exempt seniors from the state designed MSLs, we will still have to administer some type of assessment that can be scanned, scored and uploaded to the DPI's WINSCAN program in order to get student/teacher growth data. With that said, would you like us to explore the option of exempting seniors from the MSLs or would you rather all students take the MSLs?
    Exempt seniors and design a local assessment that can be scanned, scored and uploaded to DPI.
    Have all students take the MSLs designed by DPI.


  1. If you exempt students from final exams, please list the criteria you use for exempting students.





Ron Phipps
Associate Superintendent, Evaluation and Testing