| This longitudinal study at Middle Township High School, a small rural public school in southern New Jersey, measured the impact of a pilot program on the performance of 11th grade students in mathematics on the NJHSPA. Data gathered included scores on the 2002 GEPA as the pre-test and the 2005 HSPA as the post-test. Independent variables including ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, age and attendance were measured to determine their impact on test performance. Grades in the pilot program were also measured to determine their ability to predict testing outcomes.; GEPA scores and age had the most impact on test performance. Grades earned in the pilot program predicted student performance on the HSPA. An important discovery was that both minority students and socio-economically deprived students made significant progress on the HSPA following participation in the pilot program. |
