Data and noise in high-stakes testing
Via Eduwonk, a thoughtful reflection on the graduation-exam lawsuit in California. The blogger, T.M.A.O., has a response that’s full of interesting tensions. For example, there’s the criticism of problematic high-stakes testing… Like the outcome of a presidential election with pervasive voter fraud, the results of a high school exit exam emerging from a grossly unjust […]
More grad rates debates
Via NCLBlog comes the tip of Jay Mathews’s story today on the grad-rate debate, along with sidebars by Mishel and Roy and Greene and Winters, respectively. Greene and Winters are pegging most of their rebuttal on an accounting argument that asks where about half a million graduates are, if you accept their claims about how […]
FCAT data released
The Florida Department of Education released another year’s batch of FCAT scores. Reporters will rush to the media packet to mine it for details. Page 36 will get some attention, as it shows that a lower proportion of 10th graders have been passing the reading section of the FCAT (for graduation purposes) in the last […]