by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | Accountability
This is a re-post of Jamie Post Candee’s popular “We Are All Accountable For Our Kids” originally posted February 11, 2015 I spend a lot of time talking with state chiefs, policy makers, teachers, and parents about the need for tests. I often think about this debate...
by Taylor Riordan | May 26, 2015 | Accountability, Performance Scoring
Being a lifelong Minnesotan instilled in me an immense appreciation and love for the different seasons. That said, I’ve never thought much about how a “change in the weather” might affect classroom performance until the past couple of years when Questar started seeing...
by admin | Apr 13, 2015 | Accountability, Measurement
A test typically has a single specified purpose. In fact, if a test serves more than one purpose, the secondary or tertiary purposes are rarely well served. For example, the single purpose of an English language learner (ELL) assessment is to determine a student’s...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Accountability
“Today’s eagerness to jettison our commitment to leave ‘no child behind’ is a shame,” writes Chad Aldeman in a recent article (“In Defense of Annual School Testing”) in The New York Times. He argues that standardized testing, although not perfect, has improved...
by admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Accountability
In my last post I discussed how the test author or developer could make a test more or less difficult simply by using different items with a different distribution of item difficulties. Although I used, as examples, the ACT Assessment and the SAT, two tests that use...
