__________________________Quick Reference Guide

Credit Recovery Characteristics and Offerings

Who qualifies?
The Credit Recovery program is designed for students who have recently failed the course and/or
the EOC. The course is designed for the student who has failed the course and needs to repeat
the course.

Lessons and Assignments

All Credit Recovery courses are mastery based; this means that students will pre-assess at the
beginning of each unit, and this pre-assessment will help teachers to determine which
assignments from that unit are required for the student to complete for mastery. A high score on
the pre-assessment will allow the student to exempt most or all of the assignments of the unit.
All courses are designed and taught by highly qualified, highly successful classroom teachers in
North Carolina.

All assignments in the course will align with the goals of the Standard Course of Study and will
prepare students for the re-taking of the EOC. Once a student masters an assignment, the student
will move on to the next assignment. If a student does not master an assignment, the student will
remediate the concepts and/or be given another assignment that assesses the material in a
different way by his or her teacher.

Communication
Students will have weekly contact with their teacher in a synchronous environment as well as
daily contact via email. Once all units of the course are mastered, NCVPS will notify the school
of the student’s completion of the course and the final grade earned for the course. EOC testing
will be the responsibility of the school; the school will also need to calculate the student’s final
grade using the NCVPS final course grade and the EOC grade. Teachers will not distribute
grades to the students but will communicate in terms of mastery and non-mastery of
assignments. Each school will need to communicate final grades to students and parents for
those students who master the course. For those students who do not master the course, NCVPS
will designate those students as Non-Mastery in the final reporting.

Course Offerings:
The following credit recovery courses are available starting Summer 2009:

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 1. Algebra I
2. Algebra II
3. Geometry
4. Physical Science
5. US History
6. Civics and Economics
7. English I
8. English II
9. English III
10. English IV

Course Codes
In order for a student to be enrolled in a Credit Recovery course, the student must have
previously failed the course; the course cannot be taken for first time credit. Local school
system policy drives whether a student who has scored a Level III or higher on an EOC will
retest once the course has been mastered. For EOC courses, there will be two course codes for
each course – one to indicate that an EOC will be taken and the other to indicate that an EOC
will not be taken. Again, local school policy will determine which course code is needed.
Despite the course code the school system uses for the course, the course is the same

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