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Show Audit says Alpine District is clean benool tsoara memDers also heard that Alpine students achieved a percentile ranking of 62 on the composite score in the district's fall testing program wmcn measures Dasic acaaemic skills for the district's fifth graders. Using teh Science Research Associates (SRA) test battery, the See District on page 3 The Alpine School District received a clean bill of financial ,t health from the auditors for 1982-l 1982-l j 3i and test scores show local fifth d,j graders are above the national ,() average, the board of education learned at its regular meeting s - luesday night. 1 The financial audit, conducted by Provo CPA firm of Gilbert and Stewart, said that a review of the ," : asWct's handling of some $169 i "ullion to be "in conformity with Benerally accepted accounting Principles apphed on a basis ! insistent with that of the ' , Preceding year." Sidney S. Gilbert explained the j meaning of the audit: "We are j giving what is called a 'clean I opinion.' " That's the best of three ; Songs the auditors can offer. Ij A letter accompanying the audit Pointed out six areas of concern in , , as of "internal control" to help KeP the district's funds straight. Those procedures included not tXHbng expenditures to incorrect accounts to avoid budget excesses; considering the Alpine School District Private Foundation as an integral part of the District for financial reporting purposes; keeping better information on temporary employees; better accounting for summer school programs, field trips and similar program; and developing a district policy regarding the private us of district assets; as well as a establishing a inventory list ot fixed assets. . , Superintendent Clark Cox said the district would work on all of those areas so they wouldnt turn up in the 1984 audit, but Ehstnct Clerk-Treasurer Charles Lloyd said the problem with not haveing an adequate enventory list would probably persist because there isn enough manpower to keep that kind of list up-to-date, lioyd said the district had been ' struggling with the problem of vSS and would probably go on struggling until more manpower SSd be allocated towards solving the problem. 'District (Unturned from page 1) y .fifth grade is assessed each fall in j. the areas of reading, mathematics ; : and language arts, plus social i : studies, reference material and j i idence. Grades 3, 7, 9 and 11 are tested in teh spring. The 62 percentile score means f: that that the average Alpine ? student scored at or above 62 percent of the students in the i country who took the battery. This f composite score is based on i averages of the three basic skill y Teas: Reading, mathematics and language arts. - In' individual areas, local students did well on the science fflj portion of the test with a 62 fj percentile score, but they scored Poorly in the area of reference matereials with a percentile Joking of 55. I tyhile the overall math score jme in at 61, Alpine students PPped to a 52 precentile rankign u the subcategory of computation - an indication that the school fflay need to focus the elementary .jj-, Bath curriculum more carefully on T ; . computational skills of ; edition, subtraction, multiplica-; multiplica-; ton and division, district officials . said. - ' . Reading received an overall : Wcentile score of 61, with rankings of 63 on vocabulary and 60 on comprehension. The fifth graders also exceeded national averages in all portion sof the Language ARts portion of the SRA with a composite ranking of 60 and the following subcategory scores: mechanics 60, usage 60, spelling 58. The spelling score now parallels the other portions of Language Arts which may indicate that the district effort to bring spelling scores up to other scores has been effective. The percentile ranking for the social studies portion of the SRA was 58. "While the scores only depict the status of our fifth grade students," Cox said, "they do give us some indication of the strengths and weaknesses of our elementary curriculum. The uniformity of the scores for the three important areas of math, reading and language arts, for instance, is encouraging. "The data suggests, however, that math computation and spelling could receive further emphasis," Cox continued. "In addition, the specific student scores which are being printed for teachers will be helpful in the meeting of individual student needs." : : 1 |