{"id":4072,"date":"2011-11-01T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2011-11-03T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T01:52:56","slug":"florida-naep-scale-scores-stagnant-over-past-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4072","title":{"rendered":"Florida NAEP scale scores stagnant over past 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note after perusing the inferred scale score means for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationsreportcard.gov\">National Assessment of Educational Progress<\/a> released this morning, which adds 2011 data. For fourth and eighth grades in reading and math, it looks as if the state has seen a general plateau over the past three test administrations. As has been the case for a number of years, the results for fourth grade are better than for eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p>NAEP is the best look we have at a general assessment that isn&#8217;t distorted by the stakes assigned to tests. It is not perfect, but it&#8217;s better than looking at state test results. And beyond that, you are as well-equipped to make specious speculative comments on &#8220;why the plateau&#8221; as I am. Go right ahead in comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; [addendum 11\/3] or, if you are Matthew Ladner, <a href=\"http:\/\/jaypgreene.com\/2011\/11\/03\/2011-naep-florida-finally-hits-a-wall\/\">over at Jay Greene&#8217;s blog<\/a>. I&#8217;ll stand by my statement here and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/after-decade-of-gains-florida-students-stall-on-national-reading-math-tests\/1199506\">the St. Pete Times&#8217; Ron Matus<\/a>: any story you want to tell about the plateau is far more storytelling than documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note after perusing the inferred scale score means for the National Assessment of Educational Progress released this morning, which adds 2011 data. For fourth and eighth grades in reading and math, it looks as if the state has seen a general plateau over the past three test administrations. As has been the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-13G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}