North Carolina's educator effectiveness model includes a teacher's contribution to student learning as an explicit standard in his or her evaluation. For some teachers in North Carolina, state-administered End-of-Grade assessments, End-of-Course assessments, and Career and Technical Education Post-Assessments can provide information on the growth of their students. For other teachers, the State Testing Program does not provide any content-specific measure of how those teachers contribute to the academic success of their students.
WHAT THE MEASURES OF STUDENT LEARNING ARE
WHAT THE MEASURES OF STUDENT LEARNING ARE
- 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
- Substitutes for local final exams
- Designed with input from teachers
- Multiple-choice standardized exams for all areas of the Standard Course of Study
- Assessments that need to be delivered with the same level of security as EOCs and EOGs
- Designed without teacher input
- The only source of data used to make decisions about a teacher's effectiveness
- Part of the school accountability model
LIST OF COURSES TAKING NC FINAL EXAMS IN 2017-2018
RELEASED NC FINAL EXAMS
The NC Department of Public Instruction released sets of items from previous year's administrations of the North Carolina Final Exams (NCFE). These test items may be used by school systems to help acquaint students with NCFE items. The released items may not reflect the breadth of the standards assessed and/or the range of item difficulty found on the NC Final Exam. These materials must not be used for personal or financial gain.