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There's a lot to unpack in your short utterance I just would like to comment on eliminating SAT scores. > Noninstructional factors explain most of the variance
by chx 5y ago
There's a lot to unpack in your short utterance I just would like to comment on eliminating SAT scores.
> Noninstructional factors explain most of the variance among test scores when
schools or districts are compared. A study of math results on the 1992 National
Assessment of Educational Progress found that the combination of four such variables
(number of parents living at home, parents' educational background, type of community,
and poverty rate) accounted for a whopping 89 percent of the differences in state scores
from https://alfiekohn.org/teaching/pdf/Standardized%20Testing%20and%20Its%20Victims.pdf https://alfiekohn.org/teaching/pdf/Standardized%20Testing%20... if you really want I can dig up the old study.
- BobbyJo 5y agoThose same factors explain a large portion of differences in educational achievement. Doesn't that mean the test is then doing what it is designed to do?
- chx 5y agoYour answer is as shortsighted and stems from the same fundamental misunderstanding as those given to "defund the police". We need to change education itself so it is not a tool of systemic racism. Which currently, based on that study, it is. In a sense you are right: yes, it does its job if the job is to be the canary in the coal mine. But we did away with canaries in the coal mines and made the mines more secure.