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"point of the tests" The point of the tests should be to determine what topics a student has successfully mastered and which they need to spend more time on. I
by mattmcknight 6y ago
"point of the tests"
The point of the tests should be to determine what topics a student has successfully mastered and which they need to spend more time on. If each school is allowed to come up with their own standard, it will be difficult to tell which schools are lowering standard. Using it as a measure of school effectiveness is a secondary measure that is really not possible without longitudinal data.
- dehrmann 6y agoThey're also useful for evaluating schools and teachers.
- mtrovo 6y agoSchools on poor areas in general go bad on tests not just because the teachers are bad, there are other socioeconomic variables that influence much more on student grades, like poverty, nutrition, violence, and so on. Even if you do believe evaluation works the way it is I still think its execution doesn't make any sense. You're taking schools that have bad grades and granting them less money on the next term, what positive effect is this supposed to have?
- nitwit005 6y agoUsually the concept is to reward improvement. If your school helps the disadvantaged students more than other schools do, it gets more funding.
- dehrmann 6y ago> Schools on poor areas in general go bad on tests not just because the teachers are bad... True, but if you see scores consistently jump in one subject year-over-year, that's probably because of a good teacher. For evaluating teachers, relative test scores are more interesting. As for schools, yeah, it's heard when you're bumping into a lot of external limitations. You almost need to model expected performance and benchmark against that because it's incredibly hard to get mediocre performance out of bad circumstances.