State Picks Firm to Create First High School Exit Exam
With a deadline looming, California education officials picked American Institutes for Research to develop the state’s high school exit exam. AIR is a Washington-based company with a West Coast office in Palo Alto.
The exit exam is a math and language arts test that California students must pass to graduate from high school. The Class of 2004 will be the first high school class required to pass the exam. That class, which will begin its freshman year this fall, is expected to get its first crack at the exam in spring 2001.
AIR, known primarily for research and technical support, is expanding its test development. The company has done much of the work on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an exam given to students nationwide.
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