March 15, 2013 – Sent from E. W. Burt, Business/Marketing Teacher, Blanket ISD:
CSCOPE Study – Compiled by 9th Grade Business Class, Blanket ISD, Blanket, Texas
My business class asked me what CSCOPE is and if it works. I told them, “Let’s find out if schools that use CSCOPE score better or worse compared to schools that do not use it.”
To this end, we took a list of CSCOPE schools and a list of STAAR/End-of-Course scores (2011-12 School Year) from public schools statewide. Each class member took a portion of the more than 1,000 Texas public schools and recorded the STAAR/EOC test results on a spreadsheet. We compared Algebra I, Biology I, English Writing 1, and Geography. Here is what we found:
Percent of test takers scoring unacceptable on STAAR/EOC tests –
CSCOPE 20.35%
Non- CSCOPE 13.74%
48% more CSCOPE students scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Biology I
CSCOPE 14.86%
Non- CSCOPE 10.50%
42% more CSCOPE students scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
English Writing I
CSCOPE 46.30%
Non- CSCOPE 39.48%
19.57% more CSCOPE students scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Geography
CSCOPE 23.30%
Non- CSCOPE 17.78%
37.06% more CSCOPE students scored unsatisfactory than Non-CSCOPE
Average 36.67% higher unsatisfactory rate among CSCOPE students on all tests
*Over 950 Texas ISDs surveyed
Data from
http://www.texastribune.org/
http://www.txcscopereview.com/
E. W. Burt, Business/ Marketing teacher
Freshman Business Class, Blanket ISD
ewburt@yahoo.com
