Director Michele Meckes and grant manager Kevin Uhde look over records in the Mansfield City Schools Adult and Community Education office, located in the rear of the Hedges Campus building.
A change in the requirement for a General Education Development (GED) diploma is good news for students in Mansfield City Schools’ Adult and Community Education program.
GED Testing Service, the national organization responsible for overseeing the GED test, announced new grading guidelines this week that lower the passing score for high school equivalency in all subject areas from 150 to 145.
Kevin Uhde, grant manager at the MCS Adult Education office in the Hedges building, said that news has an immediate impact on local students whose scores met the new threshhold.
“The changes are retroactive to January of 2014 so, by our estimations, there will be 20 individuals who have tested with us who will now be given their GED diplomas without any further testing,” Uhde said.
“This also will affect many testers who gave up after taking a few tests and not passing by the previous score requirements,” he added. “Now that the score requirements have changed, hundreds of previous testers may be closer to passing their GED than they realize.”
The computer-based GED test assesses students’ knowledge of mathematics, science and social studies.
The revised GED Testing Service guidelines also add two new score levels to reflect readiness for college.
For more information contact Uhde or Michele Meckes, Adult Education director, at 419-525-6380.