Tag: testing

Statisticians are warning against using value-added models and student test data to evaluate teachers. Here's another published report.

Some test prep companies want you to believe they are the only path to high SAT scores. Not true. And what does it matter anyway?

Field tests began today for PARCC, aligned to the Common Core, and challenging kids not only with finding the answers but with defending them.

The head of Catholic schools in Chicago is upset that CPS changed the testing requirements for selective enrollment high schools.

One elementary school on Chicago's west side has announced that the teachers are refusing to administer the ISAT to their students, in violation of federal law.

We analyzed the item types on the PARCC practice tests & found that almost all could be delivered in a paper-and-pencil test. We question the need to upgrade technology at great cost.

We respond to a letter in the Baltimore Sun asking why educators say kids should prepare for harder tests and skip the easier ones because their scores will go down.

It's not clear whether charter school officials outright cheated when they administered the ISAT to special ed students, but irregularities in the data suggest a systemic problem of some sort.

A very eloquent objection to many school reforms sweeping the country was entered onto the record in Knox County, Tenn., by Ethan Young, a student. Our response follows.

The scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the "Nation's Report Card" were released last week, and we have a few details to share.