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No one can come up with anything better that provides feedback at least annually for all grades upper elementary and higher, and can be used to compare district
by shantly 7y ago
No one can come up with anything better that provides feedback at least annually for all grades upper elementary and higher, and can be used to compare districts and schools across a state.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoOnly if you have national standards and you use weighted pass scores and not absolute ones ie top 5% is a A Otherwise you get grade inflation for example when I left school an Civil service ASO (assistant scientific officer) you needed 5 or 6 O levels (age 16 exams) now its a Degree entry.
- tcj 7y agoWhy do you need to compare districts and schools across a state in the first place?
- shantly 7y agoTo determine relative school effectiveness. You could come up with some measure that's different for every school but it'd be a lot less useful for answering questions like "which schools are having trouble, so we can go try to find out what's going wrong there and fix it?"
- tcj 7y agoI agree, especially in regards to knowing where to improve. But a bigger question is what do we consider effectiveness? Do higher scores on math tests mean a school is more effective than another? Because if we do we are saying that the "best" schools are the ones that provide the best test scores. Is that the measure we want for our schools, for our education and for learning in general? What do you think about that?