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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: A Blow to Test Secrecy in New York!
Ed: Thanks for posting this. I copied it for another teacher to use in rebutting arguments that tests must be secret. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ed Levine" <eddie185@YAHOO.COM> >To: <ARN-L@listsrva.CUA.EDU> >Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:00 PM > > >> The N. Y. State Ed. Dept. has sent the following statement to all >> superintendents and principals: >> >> "In a change from previous years, you are no longer required to send >> your Test Book 1's [multiple choice, norm-refenced test published by >> CTB/McGraw-Hill] to a destruction site at the conclusion of testing >> ... these materials will no longer be considered secure, and your >> school may use extra Test Book 1's ... for instructional purposes." >> >> In our current climate, this is the closest we come to good news. >> The norm-referenced exams that New York's fourth- and eighth-grade >> students take are no longer subject to top-secret security >> provisions! We'll be able to see for ourselves whether or not a >> particular item was fair, and we won't be in the dark when we review >> test results with kids, parents, teachers, principals, the media, or >> any other interested parties. >> >> Rumor has it that CTB/McGraw-Hill had so many foul-ups in recent >> years, including the infamous "send 20,000 kids to summer school due >> to scoring errors" incident, that they had no choice but to comply >> with our requests for an open testing process. >> >> It's a long way to utopia, but I think we've taken a step in the >> right direction! George Sheridan Northside School Black Oak Mine Unified School District 860 Cave Valley Road Cool, California 95614 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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