Three weeks ago came the news that Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas and the corporate reformers who are busy «turning around» the Bridgeport School System decided to add another round of standardized tests to finish up the school year (even though the state - wide Connecticut
Mastery Tests just took place only a few weeks ago.)
Not exact matches
For him, the best evidence of this is not
just improved
test scores or faster
mastery of content but when parents say that their children are excited about learning and can't wait to get up in the morning and go to school.
Hartford is
just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored
test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery T
test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized
tests such as the Connecticut
Mastery TestTest.
It's
just a
test, one that goes a ways towards bridging the honesty gap by more accurately reflecting student
mastery of course content.
And three towns, two of them under the control of «Special Master» Steven Adamowski, decided they'd
just make their students take all the various
tests ensuring that all instructional activities in those communities came to an abrupt end in March when the Connecticut
Mastery Test and the Smarter Balanced Field
Test would begin.
Because Common Core has
just recently been enacted, Wisconsin students will not be
tested on their
mastery of the standards until next school year.
However, out - right cheating is
just the tip of the much bigger iceberg that reflects a variety of techniques that are used to inflate local Connecticut
Mastery Test scores.
But now,
just a year later, Pryor is saying that although he knew the shift to the Common Core was taking place and despite the fact that shifting to the common core would lead to lower
test scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performa
test scores on the Connecticut
Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performa
Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut
Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performa
Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performance.