Impact of C Average Policy on Extracurricular Participation

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Impact of C Average Policyon Extracurricular
Participation
Richland School District One Office of Research
Evaluation August 31, 2005
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C Average Policy

• Adopted January 2000 revised June 2000
• Participation in extracurricular activities in
  grades 6-12 is contingent on 2.0 GPA in the
  preceding semester
• phase in period
• 6-7, 9-10 for 2000-2001
• 6-11 for 2001-2002
• 6-12 for 2002-2003

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Tracking Extracurricular Activities GPAs

• Student participation in extracurricular
  activities is recorded in the SASI database
• Athletic directors and team sponsors record
  participation directly into SASI or provide the
  information to the database specialist
• GPAs are stored in SASI, but were calculated by
  Research Evaluation for the C-Average Report

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August 2005 Report

• Examines participation in athletics
• Examines impact of the policy on athletes
• Reviews athletic participation and GPA data for
  grades 7 and 8 in middle schools and grades 9-12
  in high schools
• Students excluded from participation for
  2004-2005 are not included in the sports
  presented
• Includes data for 2,180 team participants across
  14 sports (21)

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Participation in Athletics

• 2180 students participated in sports (21)
• Of these 2180 students, 41 were female and 59
  were male students
• Of these 2180 students, 69 were Black or
  minority students and 31 were white students
• 17 of female students took part in sports while
  26 of male students did
• 18 of minority students took part in sports
  while 31 of white students did
• A total of 14 sports were offered

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Demographics of Athletes in Grades 7-12
N2,180
Male
White
Male
Minority
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Impact of C Average Policy

• Compliance to the policy for 2005 Spring sports
• Ineligibility for 2005 Fall/Winter sports for
  students in grades 7-11 in 2004-2005
• Motivation for students to improve their GPAs

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Sports Calendar
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Number of Students Participating in Spring Sports
2005 with Fall 2004 GPA lt 2.0by Sport
N16
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Number of Students Participating in Spring Sports
2005 with Fall 2004 GPA lt 2.0by Grade
N16
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Compliance

• 2 of Spring 2005 athletes (N16) failed to meet
  the 2.0 GPA requirement
• Out-of-district transfers with GPA lt 2.0, but
  eligible according to SCHSL policy, allowed to
  participate on probation for one semester
• Non-diploma track special education students
• Appeals
• GPA Errors

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Sports Calendar
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Spring 2005 GPAs of Students Participating in
Fall/Winter Sports 2004 (Grades 7-11) by Sport
(32)
(23)
(20)
(8)
(11)
(10)
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Spring 2005 GPAs of Students Participating in
Fall/Winter Sports 2004 (Grades 7-11)by Grade
N332
Students entering the 6th and 9th grades are
allowed to participate and given one semester to
obtain the required 2.0 GPA.
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Ineligibility

• Ineligibility for Fall/Winter 2005 sports
• 332 Fall/Winter sport athletes in grades 7-11 had
  Spring GPAs lt 2.0
• Could participate in Fall/Winter 2005 sports if
• enter 9th grade in Fall 2005
• pull up GPA after attending summer school
• win an appeal

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Motivation

• Approximately 15 of Fall/Winter athletes in
  grades 7-11 had a GPA below 2.0 at the end of the
  2004 Fall semester
• Of these athletes whose GPAs dropped below 2.0,
  33 had pulled their GPAs up to 2.0 by the end of
  the Spring semester (as compared with 29 of all
  students in grades 7-12 pulled their GPAs up to
  2.0 by the end of the Spring semester)

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Spring Semester GPAs Comparison

• Of the 2,180 middle and high school athletes with
  GPA data, 18 had GPAs less than 2.0
• The percentage of student athletes with GPAs less
  than 2.0 was significantly lower than the
  percentage of all students with GPAs less than
  2.0 (32)

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Richland School District OnePercent of Students
with Spring GPA lt 2.0
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Historical Review of C-Average Policy After Full
Implementation (2002-2003)

• Participation
• Compliance
• Motivation

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ParticipationPercent of Students Participating
in Sports
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CompliancePercent of Spring Athletes with Fall
GPAs lt 2.0
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MotivationPercent of Students with Spring GPAs lt
2.0
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Conclusion

• The C-Average policy has been strictly enforced
  the spring athletes who had Fall GPAs lt 2.0
  maintained at 2 over the past three years
• The C-Average policy has shown its effect in
  motivating athletes to pull up GPAs to 2.0 over
  the past three years (35 in 2003 2004 and 33
  in 2005 as compared with 28 in 2003 and 29 in
  2004 2005 for all students)
• The C-Average policy does not affect the
  participation rate it maintains or exceeds the
  participation rate before the full implementation
  (20) over the past three years