Robert Schaeffer
Robert Schaeffer
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What is likely is that you will see a decline in scores whenever a new test is administered. It's due to unfamiliarity with the test.
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People are under the false illusion that because the tests are graded by a machine that the process is objective. But everything, including programming the machine and doing quality control on it, is, in fact, done by human beings. And all humans make mistakes.
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The testing explosion often creates overlaps between tests mandated at the district level, the state level and the federal level,
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I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel ù a camel being a horse built by committee.
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More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Proponents claimed this additional hurdle would 'raise the bar' for educational quality. But SAT and ACT scores show that college readiness skills, as measured by these indicators, have not improved significantly.
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What this represents is a dissatisfaction or worse with the changes in the SAT.
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The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.
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Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting to see such a large number here and how they have adapted to life in another country over the years.
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The volume is way up, and the people with the competence to do this don't exist.
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It raises further questions about whether we yet know the full scope of the problem. It's not a large percentage, but if they were your scores or your kid's scores, it could mean something very significant.
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This would be a comedy of errors if the impact on human lives were not so tragic. How many more missing forms are there lost in the system? How many other errors have not been reported?
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There's clearly something wrong with the management at the College Board and Pearson.
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Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the food we feed our pets that of the tests we give our kids
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The larger issue here is that the nation has put its trust in an unaccountable testing industry. It's yet another one of those cases in which the testing industry's screw-up could significantly harm people's education and their lives.