High School Proficiency Exam – HSPE
April 21, 2010
This information is from the OSPI website for HSP information.
High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE)
Beginning in the 2009-10 school year, the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) will be replaced by two new assessments: Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) for grades 3-8 and the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE).
The HSPE will measure students’ proficiency in basic skills. Students in the classes of 2010-2012 must pass a reading and writing assessment in order to graduate from high school. Students who have already passed the reading and/or writing WASL will not have to take the HSPE in that content area.
Students in the Class of 2013 are the first to be required to pass reading, writing, math, and science assessments.
The HSPE takes less time than the WASL and will be moved online over the next few years. Reading, math, and science will take just one day each instead of two. For now, writing will still take two days.
Beginning in spring 2011, about a quarter of the state’s students in high school will take the HSPE by computer in reading, writing and math. See OSPI’s online assessment schedule.
As before, the assessments will be administered in the spring.
Tags: HSPE, assessments
This information is from the OSPI website for HSP information.
High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE)
Beginning in the 2009-10 school year, the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) will be replaced by two new assessments: Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) for grades 3-8 and the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE).
The HSPE will measure students’ proficiency in basic skills. Students in the classes of 2010-2012 must pass a reading and writing assessment in order to graduate from high school. Students who have already passed the reading and/or writing WASL will not have to take the HSPE in that content area.
Students in the Class of 2013 are the first to be required to pass reading, writing, math, and science assessments.
The HSPE takes less time than the WASL and will be moved online over the next few years. Reading, math, and science will take just one day each instead of two. For now, writing will still take two days.
Beginning in spring 2011, about a quarter of the state’s students in high school will take the HSPE by computer in reading, writing and math. See OSPI’s online assessment schedule.
As before, the assessments will be administered in the spring.
Tags: HSPE, assessments