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Tempe Union presents assessment results: semester 1 failure rates below 10 percent, administrators flag sophomore cohort for focus
Summary
District assessment staff told the board most common final exams show reliability above 0.75 and that districtwide semester 1 failure rates across courses were below 10 percent; the presentation highlighted higher failure rates among English learners and some special education subgroups and noted the district is developing placement-level reporting.
At the Jan. 18 governing board meeting, district assessment staff presented a district-level overview of academic performance and attendance, describing the assessment continuum, development of common final exams, and tools principals use to target interventions.
Presenter (identified in the transcript as Doctor Alexik) explained the district’s balanced-assessment approach, which includes daily classroom measures, unit assessments, common district final exams and annual summative assessments. He said common final exams are created by teacher cadres, undergo item analysis and have reported reliability values generally greater than 0.75. The presenter reported correlations between final exam scores and final course grades of approximately 0.65–0.75.
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