The Chronicle of Higher Education

High-School Exit Exams Are Associated With Higher Dropout Rates, Researchers Find

Since 1979, a growing number of states have required high-school students to pass exit examinations before they can receive diplomas. For nearly as long, scholars and policy makers have debated ...
The Journal

End High School Exit Exams in Light of Common Core, Researchers Argue

States will need to revisit or even abandon high school exit exams in the very near future or risk one of two potentially disastrous outcomes: either preventing a large percentage of students from ...
Hackaday

Hacking High School Exams And Foiling Them With Statistics

A few weeks ago, [Debarghya Das] had two friends eagerly awaiting the results of their High School exit exams, the ISC national examination, taken by 65,000 12th graders in India. This exam is vitally ...
journalgazette

Validity of exit exams is debated | Schools | journalgazette.net

High school freshman Brenden Shuler breezed through the state-standardized algebra test last year, but doesn’t really see the point of the exam. “If you have a good enough grade in that class, that ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

High-School Exit Exams Linked to Higher Dropout Rates, Researchers Find

Since 1979, a growing number of states have required high-school students to pass exit examinations before they can receive diplomas. For nearly as long, scholars and policy makers have debated ...