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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: From Rocky Mountain News: A new way of grading schools
Does the world really divide so neatly into destroying schools through standardized tests and saving them with "local and authentic" assessment? They're looking at a ton of indicators - 42 or so, including 15 measures of students' growth. Seems like things could get pretty complicated and it will be interesting to see what kind of decision-making framework they apply. It's not clear to me how they will use an indicator like the proportion of parents who send their child to the same school in successive years. If your local school is your only choice, that is where your kids are going to go. What's really interesting is the bit at the end - where the article says the point is to get similar schools to share ideas with one another. You would think that learning from others' experience would be integral and automatic in public education, but in fact it's an alien notion throughout. That's one of the realities that people don't see and it's far more important than phony distinctions between "standardized" tests and "authentic" assessment or "state control" vs "local control." Art -----Original Message----- From: monty@fairtest.org To: arn-l@interversity.org Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 9:00 am Subject: Re: [arn-l] From Rocky Mountain News: A new way of grading schools Denver's willingness to use multiple indicators of schools is good, but it still looks like the only indicators of student learning are the standardized tests. They are thoroughly inadequate tools for the purpose of high-quality evaluation, and their high-stakes creates powerful pressure to reduce curriculum and instruction to test prep. Dancing around that basic issue with 'growth' measures just allows educational destruction to continue. Monty Quoting gbracey1@verizon.net: Jerry Bracey sent you this: A new way of grading schools http://rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/08/a-new-way-of-grading-schools/ -------- Jerry Bracey attached this additional message: hmmmm. -------- Rocky Mountain News ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
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