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Isn't the issue that you need a shared test to measure students from across different classrooms, let alone different cities, states, countries, etc.? I agree t
by karaterobot 3y ago
Isn't the issue that you need a shared test to measure students from across different classrooms, let alone different cities, states, countries, etc.? I agree that it would be great if student ability could be evaluated in some other way that met the same requirements as a standardized test, but I just don't see how to do that.
Apart from, I guess, a one-on-one interview for every student with the colleges they apply to. That wouldn't scale, and people would complain about bias with that, and not without reason.
- germinalphrase 3y agoThere are distinct psychometric techniques used to validate the trustability of assessments. Those same techniques could be used to validate the classroom assessments, but - obviously - no one has the financial or time budget to implement such a thing. So, the idea is that you would begin by providing an assessment creation tool that can be seamlessly implemented in the classroom that also has the ability, in a more aggregated fashion, to develop assessments that pass psychometric evaluation. Would it replace the ACT/SAT immediately? Of course not. The effort would be a classic innovator's dilemma scenario in which the continuous collection of curriculum, instruction and assessment content creates a unique (and, currently, silo'ed/analog) data set against which to continuously improve the quality of the assessment tool. From there - you branch out into instructional support more broadly, but that's a much broader and more difficult context.