Re: [FCARFORUM] ACT scores - Billboard

["Quan, Cao" <QCao009@AOL.COM>]

In a message dated 8/17/01 12:41:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gbracey@EROLS.COM writes:

<< I'm not sure we should expect TAAS to have any influence on ACT or SAT
 scores.  After all, 89% of the students achieved "proficient" on TAAS but
 only 29% got proficient on NAEP reading.  Doesn't seem like a terribly tough
 test. >>

Bob & Jerry:

To the contrary, I don't think I am strong enough.  Someone has to test the
testers and the standard-setters, and that person should come from the
community upon which the standards and tests are being used.  Geographical
issues aside, we cannot administer tests who do not measure learning, argue
about their reliability, argue about their validity, and continue to act like
they are not harmful.

May be we are just begging the issue, but does the condemned man argue about
how many times they are going to electrocute him?  How many times can a child
be tested, before the child turns angry at the waste that the adult world is
subjecting him to?  That's the point that Gloria Pipkin was making to Charlie
Crist, who turned a blind ear.  Even though the Commissioner may possess the
intellectual capacity to understand her point, he lacks the emotional
intelligence to appreciate the harm he's doing in the name of reform.  He
might as well be deaf and blind.

Quan

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