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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:21:37 -0800
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From: karenm@exploratorium.edu (Karen A. Mendelow)
Subject: H.S. Science Tests
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>>Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:41:26 -0700
>>From: asussma@wested.org
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>>Subject: H.S. Science Tests
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>>This announcement has been posted by the California Science Education
>>Advisory Committee (CSEAC). Text of previous messages may be found on the
>>EdGateway California Science Overview at www.edgateway.net/ca/science.
>>
>>
>>A panel selected by the State Board of Education has been reviewing
>>options for the required high school science tests. These are designed to
>>be augmented items specifically for science, aligned with the stateís
>>science standards at high school. These would be in addition to the
>>norm-referenced Stanford 9 items. This advisory panel is called the
>>California Science Augmentation Review Panel.
>>
>>According to our latest information, the Panel has made the following
>>recommendations to the Board.
>>
>>1. There should be four Augmentation tests, one for each of the separate
>>strands of biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science.
>>
>>2. There should be in addition three Augmentation tests that test a
>>mixture of the standards from the four strands in order to test the
>>Integrated Curriculum for Science (ICS). The appropriate mixture for each
>>of grades 9, 10, and 11 must be determined by a panel of ICS developers
>>and instructors, a panel that the State Board of Education must convene
>>promptly. The actual questions for these three mixed tests can be drawn
>>from the list of questions already developed for each of the four separate
>>science strands.
>>
>>3. A student in grade 9, 10, or 11 takes an Augmentation test if the
>>student is enrolled in a science class. In any year a student takes more
>>than one science class, the student still takes only one Augmentation
>>test; in a year a student takes no science class, the student takes no
>>Augmentation test. In any year a student takes a science class that his
>>school accepts as counting toward the legal requirement that the student
>>take two years of science, the student must take some Augmentation test.
>>
>>
>>
>>If you have information of interest to California science educators that
>>you would like posted, please contact Art Sussman via e-mail at
>>asussma@wested.org
>>
>
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