Average TAP scores rose substantially for students who enrolled in ninth grade, but the 1997 high school redesign appears to have had only a modest impact on skill development¶
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q2 i? Average TAP scores rose substantially for the subset of students who enrolled in ninth grade, though the report judges the system's 1997 high school redesign to have had only a modest impact on the rate of skill development. → Shazia Rafiullah Miller 2002
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Shazia Rafiullah Miller 2002¶
Shazia Rafiullah Miller, Elaine M. Allensworth, Julie Reed Kochanek. (2002). Student Performance: Course Taking, Test Scores, and Outcomes — The State of Chicago Public High Schools: 1993 to 2000. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/student-performance-course-taking-test-scores-and-outcomes
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Trend analysis of standardized Tests of Achievement and Proficiency scores in the Chicago Public Schools from 1993 to 2000. The report states the average score "rose substan- tially for the subset of students who enrolled in the ninth grade"; APC students and eighth-grade dropouts do not take the TAP and are excluded.
"Finally, the average score on the T ests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) rose substan- tially for the subset of students who enrolled in the ninth grade."
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Related Claims¶
- Special education enrollment in ninth grade rose from 11.5 percent in 1993-94 to 16.4 percent in 1999-00, concentrating students with disabilities in neighborhood high schools — related
- Eighth-grade achievement rose substantially in postpolicy cohorts, with the 1998 cohort's included students more than half a standard deviation above prepolicy levels — related
- Taking Algebra I instead of remedial math raised Algebra credit attainment but increased failure rates and lowered math grades, with no test-score benefit — related
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Average TAP scores rose substantially for students who enrolled in ninth grade, but the 1997 high school redesign appears to have had only a modest impact on skill development |
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Average TAP scores rose substantially for students who enrolled in ninth grade, but the 1997 high school redesign appears to have had only a modest impact on skill development |
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