TeachME Professional Development

1. Compared to their 1990 counterparts, graduates earned about _____ additional hours of instruction during their high school careers in 2009.

2. After rising for more than a decade, overall GPAs for graduates did not change from 2005 to 2009.

3. In order to attain a midlevel curriculum, high school students must complete biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as two years foreign language courses.

4. Evaluations of high school transcripts indicated that ___ percent of English language learners (ELL) and ___ percent of students with disabilities (SD) completed a below standard curriculum compared with approximately 25 percent of non-ELL and non-SD graduates.

5. On average, recent high school graduates earned lower GPAs in mathematics and science than in English and social studies.

6. While graduates who completed a rigorous curriculum earned higher scores on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), it is unclear if this is because taking a rigorous curriculum provided them with the information needed to do well on NAEP, or because the most motivated students chose to take more challenging curricula, or perhaps a combination of factors.

7. Graduates whose first high school mathematics course was _________ scored 55 points higher on the NAEP mathmatics assessment than graduates who took a lower level course.

8. While current research suggests that girls earn higher GPAs than boys, boys complete more challenging curricula and perform better on NAEP.

9. For both males and females who do not complete midlevel or rigorous curricula, the requirements that are most likely missing are in the area of advanced mathematics.

10. Which of the following correctly describes curriculum level trends among various racial/ethnic groups?

11. Although the average GPAs of Asian/Pacific Islander and White graduates increased, Black and Hispanic graduates experienced no significant changes in GPAs from 1990 to 2009.

12. Studies indicate that high school graduates who took summer school classes earned more credits and a higher overall grade point average than their peers who did not take summer school.

13. For recent graduates, a larger percentage of males than females earned credits in physics and engineering, while more females than males earned credits in:

14. Students with disabilities, defined as students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for reasons other than being gifted and talented, or students with 504 plans, accounted for _________ of all graduates in 2009.

15. Recent ELL graduates earned fewer credits overall, fewer credits in core academic courses, and lower GPAs than non-ELL graduates, but in areas such as fine arts, foreign languages, and computer-related studies, ELL graduates earned more credits compared to non-ELL graduates.