What is the participant passing rate? Why use it?
The participant passing rate is simply the number of test takers that pass at least one test over the total number of test takers. In effect, it is taking the numerator of the Quality-Adjusted participation rate and dividing by the numerator of the unadjusted participation rate. If there were no reporting issues of marrying the AP or IB data to the 12th grade enrollment data, we wouldn’t need to use this metric – any school with 100 CRI would also have a 100 percent participant passing rate, as every 12th grader would be a participant (take at least one test) and every participant would pass at least one test. Given that participants exceed 12th graders for many of these top 10 schools with 100 CRIs, we are using this measure as a quality check. The result is that only 2 of the 10 schools with 100 CRIs also have 100% participant passing rates. These schools are then ranked based on their depth of test-taking, as in prior years (quality-adjusted exams per test taker).
