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Show Students in the Alpine School District have outseored their peers in both the state and nation on all 30 comparisons of the American College Testing Program, the ACT. The ACT achievement tests are traditionally taken by the nation's eleventh and twelfth grade college-bound college-bound students. Alpine District students, both men and women, who took the exam this past school year, scored 19.8 on the composite score, which is an average of the four subtests included in the exam. The composite score for the state of Utah in 1987 came in at 18.9, which the national composite was 18.7. "Alpine District scores are remarkable for two reasons," Dr. Frank Cameron, Director of Research and Evaluation for the District, said. "First, it's most unusual for a district like Alpine with such a low per-student expenditure (Alpine spends less per-student than any district in Utah, and Utah spends less per-student than any state in the nation) to do so well on this exam. "Secondly, more students here in the district and in the state take the exam than in the nation. Here, in the district, for instance, nearly two-thirds two-thirds of the eligible students took the exam. But in the nation, only about 55 percent participated. "This means that the ACT group here in the district may have included in-cluded many lower-scoring students, which could have pulled our scores down." The composite scores for both the local district and the state of Utah are down slightly from last year, according to the data. "This year's composite score of 20.1 for last year. The state score of 1H.9 for 19H7 compares to a 19K(i composite of 19 1 ." Cameron said. He explained there are four subtests included in the ACT battery-English, Math, Social Studies, and Natural Science. On the English portion of the exam, Alpine students scored at 19.4; while Utah came in at 18.6; and the nation scored at 18.4. With respect to Math, the Alpine score was 17.8, the state was 16.8, and the nation was 17.2. The Social Studies scores were Alpine, 19.1, state 17.8, and nation 17.5, and on the Natural Science portion of the test, students scored a 22.4 in Alpine, a 21.9 for Utah, and a 21.4 for the nation. The test results also made comparisons com-parisons between scores for the men and women taking the test. In the Alpine District, men out-scored out-scored the women on the composite score as well as on three of the four subtests. The composite score for the men taking the test in the Alpine District was 21.1, while the women scored at 18.8. On the English portion of the exam, the women outseored the men with scores of 19.8- and 19.0 respectively. The other Alpine subtest scores for men and women were: Math- men (19.7), women (16.3); Social Studies--men (20.5), women (18.0); Natural Science-men (24.5), women (20.8). Alpine students outshine state ; on ACT exams i |
