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Pelham district will replace NYS chemistry Regents with district-designed project assessment
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Champ announced at the Sept. 16 board meeting that Pelham Memorial High School will stop administering the New York State chemistry Regents exam and instead use a teacher-designed, year-end project-based assessment beginning this school year.
Superintendent Dr. Champ announced Sept. 16 that Pelham Memorial High School will replace the New York State chemistry Regents exam with a district-developed, project-based culminating assessment beginning this school year.
The announcement explained the change is intended to align chemistry assessment with the district's shift to inquiry-based science instruction and the New York INSPIRES/Portrait of a Graduate framework. Dr. Champ said the new assessment is "a more comprehensive and project based model, that is designed by our teachers and administrators" and added, "the new assessment will replace the New…
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