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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Do year end tests actually measure what your kids actually know? Alyson Williams served on the parent panel that reviewed questions appearing on Utah's year-end test. Wendy and Alyson discuss whether these tests fulfill the responsibility of measuring student learning. How accurate and reliable are the state's year-end tests?
5 years ago
Test students on their lexile level. They’re highly incentivized to know the level at which they’re reading. And the ACT reading portion is the section that matters most to college admittance boards.
5 years ago
Thanks ladies! Love your dialogue on this matter.
5 years ago
Zero incentive for kids. They don’t ever really see their grade. Plus, why would I want to care about a “normative” test? Why should I care about how my students do compared to kids at an expensive prep school on the Rockville pike in MD?
5 years ago
It’s a no-win or lose lose for students!
5 years ago
Also I found a sample question on a practice site (testing verbosity-being too wordy/redundant) and used it as a bell ringer but the answer on the key was incorrect.
5 years ago
It’s incredibly frustrating for teachers to waste valuable instruction time on teaching HOW to take the test.
5 years ago
This is such a great episode! I’m a licensed teacher with 8 years of teaching and for all of the concerns raised the end of year test should not be adaptive and should be a paper test! The data reports that kids test higher on a paper test and are less discouraged, less confused by the tech factor and tactile or low performing students do better on paper tests.