A New York State Principal Reacts to Misleading Test Scores
Katie Zahedi is principal in Red Hook, New York.
What the public may not understand
in the midst of today’s controversy is that when a test yields 80% (of a
particular cohort) of students passing over a 5 year span, and scores suddenly
drop to below a 35% passing rate, that the problem is probably unrelated to
student performance. In fact, the last two years of tests produced by the NYSED
have been rife with mistakes, missing tables needed for computation, and
confusing and misleading questions....
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