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Press Release
Coweta County Schools

Date: May 29, 2008

CRCT student score reports available for parent pick-up at county school
 

Individual student score reports on this year’s Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT) are available at Coweta County elementary and middle schools.

Parents who wish to pick up the score reports can call their child’s school to check the best times to come by and pick up the reports, or can check the school’s website for more details. Individual school websites can be accessed from the school system’s website at www.cowetaschools.org.

The score reports – for 1st-8th grade students – can be picked up by parents at their child’s school or can be mailed to parents who send the school a self-addressed stamped envelope. Since the score reports are confidential, they can only be given to a child’s parent or guardian.

The reports were sent by the Georgia Department of Education to the Coweta County School System after the Memorial Day holiday, and will be available for pick-up beginning Friday, May 30.

Parents of 3rd, 5th and 8th grade students were notified in May if their child did not pass reading or math sections of the test required for promotion to the next grade, per Georgia law. The reports available at schools beginning May 30 are full reports showing student performance on all sections of the test.

Schools will deliver the score reports to parents at the beginning of the new school year, if parents do not wish to pick them up immediately.

The CRCT is a state exam which measures student mastery of the state curriculum. State curriculum is in the process of changing, as the older Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) is replaced in each subject area by the new Georgia Performance Standards (GPS).

All students in grades one through eight take the CRCT in the content areas of reading, English/language arts, and mathematics. Students in grades three through eight are also assessed in science and social studies also. The exam is designed to test how well students know and are able to perform the various concepts, skills, and abilities at their grade level required by the state curriculum.

The CRCT is changed to test for the new content of the curriculum as the GPS is phased in by grade and subject area.

Statistical data for Coweta County students’ performance system-wide on the CRCT will be sent later in June.

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