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The SAT is explicitly designed to predict success at college. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
by dogruck 9y ago
The SAT is explicitly designed to predict success at college.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
- gizmo686 9y agoWe are not talking about the SAT. This article is talking about the CAASPP, which is intended to provide feedback and ratings for the schools, not the students.
- jessaustin 9y agoDoes CAASPP differ in any salient way from SAT? If someone from another nation took each of them without seeing the cover sheet, could she say that the tests were different in any important way?
- dragonwriter 9y ago> If someone from another nation took each of them without seeing the cover sheet, could she say that the tests were different in any important way? SAT is a paper-based fixed set of questions, CAASPP is an adaptive computer-based exam. So, yes, quite.
- dogruck 9y agoMost things in life are not measured and evaluated with a standardized test. Instead, they are measured by aggregated choice or surveys/votes. I haven't used a scantron form in many years. We could dispense with these tests and let people vote with their feet and wallets.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> We could dispense with these tests and let people vote with their feet and wallets. If the policy goal was short-term satisfaction rather than achieving some educational result, and we wanted to weight results by people's ability to bear the extra cost of changing schools from the one most physically convenient to their current residence, sure, that would be sensible. But as problematic as then-current testing regime may be, it's at least in principle aimed at something resembling the public policy goal public education is held out to serve, whereas your option would not be.