Millbrook Regents results

MILLBROOK — Monday, July 18, Millbrook Central School District Superintendent Lloyd Jaeger shared the 2011 New York State Regents exam results for the Millbrook district with the Board of Education (BOE) at the annual organizational meeting. The district offered 16 different exams to students in a wide variety of subjects. The U.S. government and history exam was taken by the greatest number of students, with 104 test takers, while the integrated algebra exam had the smallest attendance with only 11 students taking the exam. “These are generally equivalent to what we have seen in the past, although there are some areas where positive differences were shown,” said Jaeger. “There were some improvements in the earth science area, and also improvements in algebra, and trigonometry, that was a strongly positive area opposed to the year before.”Jaeger noted the improvements coincided with instructional changes made in the classrooms. Instructional strategies included teachers changing the way they introduced new topics and their approach to classroom models for problem solving. Additionally, more activities in the classroom were added with teachers working side by side with students to help them in their course work.Jaeger said that the new adjustments made a notable improvement in the Regents exams. Millbrook students did quite well in achieving passing scores, which scored between 65 to 84 percent and in achieving mastery level scores which ranged from 85 to 100 percent. Fifty percent of students passed comprehensive English while 50 percent received mastery scores. Sixty-four percent passed algebra II and trigonometry while 11 percent received mastery. Thirty-seven percent of students passed U.S. history and government while 57 percent received mastery level in the subject. Seventy-six percent of students passed physical setting/chemistry while 13 percent received mastery level. Forty-six percent of students passed living environment while 49 percent received mastery. Fifty-four percent of students passed comprehensive Spanish while 46 percent received mastery.“Any student can take the Regents test again to the extent that is possible,” said Jaeger. “With the Regents it’s not as easy to do that because there are not as many times that they are offered. So we don’t generally have many opportunities for kids to do that, but they can retake the exam.”

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