Swain County Schools
2012/2013
MEASURES OF STUDENT LEARNING
COMMON EXAMS
North Carolina, along with many other states, have adopted the Common Core and Essential Standards for defining what is
taught in different courses. This school year your child will be administered the new classroom assessments that include
End of Grade/Course and Common Exams.
What are the Measures of Student Learning?
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Measures of what students know and are able to do after completing a course or grade
Tightly linked to the instruction that a teacher delivers
One part of how North Carolina will evaluate the effectiveness of its teachers
Designed with input from teachers
Substitutes for local final examso Teachers at Swain Middle School will use the scores from the exams as a student test grade for the fourth
nine weeks.
Which Common Exams Will Be Administered in Swain County?
Beginning with the spring semester 2013, the state requires the administration of Common Exams only to the extent that
each ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies teacher grades 4-12 has growth value for EVAAS system. Every student that a
teacher teaches must be included in that teacher’s growth value. This score may be gathered from either an End of
Grade/Course score or when these scores are not available a common exam score. Using these criteria, enrollment
patterns were examined to determine which common exams will be administered in Swain County Schools beginning spring
semester 2013. The chart below details the required assessment for Swain County, 2012-13.
Grade Level
9 – 12
8
7
6
5
4
3
K-2
English/LA Math
Science
Social Studies
All required available Common Exams
EOG
EOG EOG
Common Exam
EOG
EOG Common Exam Common Exam
EOG
EOG Common Exam Common Exam
EOG
EOG EOG
West Elem. Only
EOG
EOG East Elem. Only Not Required
Reading and Math EOGs
No state assessments for 2012-2013
COMMON EXAMS TESTING SCHEDULE
East Elementary – After regular EOG Schedule
West Elementary & Swain Middle – The week before EOGs
Swain High – The week of EOC exams
Swain County Schools
P.O. Box 2340 Bryson City, NC 28713
828-488-3129