tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post7671063095994653393..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Common Core News (and Common Core and Student Data Privacy)Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-9597877902542752952017-01-28T07:11:37.476-08:002017-01-28T07:11:37.476-08:00Well thought content impressed me! I am glad to ch...Well thought content impressed me! I am glad to check out sharing information and accordingly meet with the demands. <a href="http://www.onlineessayeditor.com/essay-help-online-with-our-tools/online-essay-revisor/" rel="nofollow">online paper grader</a><br />aliyaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184256288293330921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-25909180207004279432016-03-21T06:37:19.936-07:002016-03-21T06:37:19.936-07:00Students records become fodder in lawsuit:
Judge ...Students records become fodder in lawsuit:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29590794/judge-pulls-back-from-calif-student-records-release" rel="nofollow">Judge backtracks on release of California student recordse</a><br /><br />The California STAR test data will be released. <br /><br />I think a similar suit is entirely plausible in our state.mirmac1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10183460709639638172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-75135621549399552462016-03-20T15:31:34.338-07:002016-03-20T15:31:34.338-07:00When I started to read the research brief, I disco...When I started to read the research brief, I discovered that there is a serious disconnect between the text and the footnotes.<br /><br />The part of the brief that says "Testing experts have raised significant concerns about all (SBAC, PARCC, Pearson) assessments, including the lack of basic principles of sound science, such as construct validity, research-based cut scores, computer adaptability, inter-rater reliability, and most basic of all, independent verification of validity." has a footnote that takes you to the Smarter Balanced website that says none of those things.<br /><br />The part of the brief that says "Here in California, the SBAC assessments have been carefully examined by independent examiners of the test content who concluded that they lack validity, reliability, and fairness, and should not be administered, much less be considered a basis for high-stakes decision making." has a footnote that takes you to a post on Diane Ravitch's blog where a reader, who is a mother and clinical psychologist, writes about taking an SBAC practice test.<br /><br />Even weirder, the section on how much it costs to do CCSS testing in California has footnotes to papers written in the 1990s.<br /><br />LisaG<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com