Facts About the California High School Exit Exam (PDF, 94K, 4 pages)
Compiled by Joanna Goode
This data is based on the cumulative results of the 2001-02 spring administrations of the High School Exit Exam. Schools that did not report their data are not included. Passing rates are based on the number of 10th graders enrolled at each school during the 2001-02 school year, as reported on the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS).

Steps for Finding a School’s CAHSEE Results on the Internet

Steps for Finding a School’s Percentage of Credentialed Teachers

Research on High-Stakes Testing

• High-Stakes Testing: Opportunities and Risks for Students of Color, English-Language Learners, and Students with Disabilities by Jay P. Heubert, J.D., Ed.D
  http://www.cast.org/ncac/index.cfm?i=920
• High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion and Graduation by Jay P. Heubert, J.D., Ed.D
  http://search.nap.edu/html/highstakes/
• The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture by Lorrie A. Shepard
  http://www.aera.net/meeting/am2000/wrap/praddr01.htm
• Accountability Systems: Implications of Requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by Robert L. Linn, Eva L. Baker, and Damian W. Betebenner
  http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol31_06/AERA310602.pdf
  
• Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment by James W. Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser
  http:www.nap.edu/catalog/10019.html

Government Documents on High-Stakes Testing

• Implementing ESEA's Testing Provisions by W. James Popham
  http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/issues_dept/Commiss.n_Report_Book.pdf
• The Use of Tests as Park of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Students: A Resource Guide for Educators and Policy-Makers
  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/testing/download.html
  
• The California Master Plan for Education
  http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/COMMITTEE/JOINT/MASTER_PLAN/_home/020909_FINAL
  _MASTER_PLAN_DOCUMENTS/2002_FINAL_COMPLETEMASTERPLAN_2.PDF
  
• SB 1408
  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1408_bill_20020830_en
  rolled.html

Policy Statements on High-Stakes Testing

• High Stakes Testing by Gary Orfield and Joanna Wald
  http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/er/gojw.html
• Harvard Civil Rights Project
  http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/alerts/testing.html
• High Stakes Testing: A Harsh Agenda for America's Children
  http://www.fairtest.org/examarts/spring00/High-Stakes_Tests_A_Harsh_Agenda_for_America's_Children.html

Teaching to Change LA

• The Right to Fair and Authentic Assessment
  http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/features/5/index.html
  
• Resources on Assessment
  http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/resources/index.html#Assessment