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Students

Examination/Grading/Rating

The Board of Education seeks, through performance objectives in its instructional program, to make achievement both recognizable and possible for students.

The issuance of grades on a regular basis serves to promote a process of continuous evaluation of student performance, to inform the student, the student's parents and counselor of his/her progress, and to provide a basis for bringing about change in student performance, if such change seems necessary.

Students enrolled in grades 3 through 8 inclusive and grade ten or eleven shall annually, take a mastery examination in reading, language arts and mathematics, during any month of the school year. (Currently administered during the last 12 weeks of the school year.)  Each student enrolled in grade 5, 8, 10 or 11 shall annually, in March or April, take a state-wide mastery examination in science.  Achievement of a satisfactory score on the mastery test shall not be required as the sole criterion for promotion or graduation.  The State Board of Education shall approve the provision and administration of all mastery examinations.

Students with significant cognitive disabilities in grades 3 through 8 and 11 shall be assessed with the Connecticut Alternate Assessment.

(cf. 6146 - Graduation Requirements)

(cf. 6146.2 - Statewide Proficiency/Mastery Examinations)

(cf. 6180 - Evaluation of the Instructional Program)

Legal Reference:  Connecticut General Statutes

10-14n State-wide mastery examination (as amended by PA 13-207 and Section 115 of PA 14-217)

10-14q Exceptions. (Students to whom provisions do not apply.)

10-221a High school graduation requirements.

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