Exams To Become Optional for Loudoun High School Teachers

In the upcoming school year, high school students in Loudoun County will get some relief from the pressures of midterms and final exams.

The school system recently announced that high school teachers will no longer be required to give those tests. Instead, teachers will be allowed to administer what are called “summative assessments,” which will measure each student’s progress at the end of a course, semester, program or school year.

This approach “will allow teachers to evaluate student learning, skill attainment and achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period,” the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) said in the July 7 announcement.

The LCPS also will remove the two exam weeks from the calendar for the 2015-’16 school year. The school system made this move after consulting students, parents, teachers and administrators through a survey.

For more information on the change in practice, check out the LCPS announcement here.