Credit Recovery Characteristics

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Credit Recovery Characteristics and Offerings Who qualifies? The Credit Recovery program is designed for students who have recently failed the course and/or the EOC. The course is designed for the student who has failed the course and needs to repeat the course.

Lessons and Assignments All Credit Recovery courses are mastery based; this means that students will pre-assess at the beginning of each unit, and this pre-assessment will help teachers to determine which assignments from that unit are required for the student to complete for mastery. A high score on the pre-assessment will allow the student to exempt most or all of the assignments of the unit. All courses are designed and taught by highly qualified, highly successful classroom teachers in North Carolina. All assignments in the course will align with the goals of the Standard Course of Study and will prepare students for the re-taking of the EOC. Once a student masters an assignment, the student will move on to the next assignment. If a student does not master an assignment, the student will remediate the concepts and/or be given another assignment that assesses the material in a different way by his or her teacher.

Communication Students will have weekly contact with their teacher in a synchronous environment as well as daily contact via email. Once all units of the course are mastered, NCVPS will notify the school of the student’s completion of the course and the final grade earned for the course. EOC testing will be the responsibility of the school; the school will also need to calculate the student’s final grade using the NCVPS final course grade and the EOC grade. Teachers will not distribute grades to the students but will communicate in terms of mastery and non-mastery of assignments. Each school will need to communicate final grades to students and parents for those students who master the course. For those students who do not master the course, NCVPS will designate those students as Non-Mastery in the final reporting.

Course Offerings: The following credit recovery courses are available starting Summer 2009: