Ensuring Fairer and Better Tests Under Title I - A The first proposed regulation focuses on ensuring states continue to administer tests that are
fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabilities.
Not exact matches
Performance
measures based on the growth in
student achievement over time, which are only possible with annual testing, provide a
fairer, more accurate picture
of schools» contribution to
student learning.
Growth
measures — like «value added» or «
student growth percentiles» — are a much
fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior
achievement and can ascertain progress over the course
of the school year.
Evaluations should be based on at least a few years» scores.The district also must find a
fair way
of evaluating teachers whose
students don't take the annual tests and should look at multiple ways
of measuring achievement, including
student portfolios and graduation rates.
Combatants on both sides
of that fight could claim a
measure of validation from the new research: Advocates
of school choice who argue that it isn't
fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a
student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving
student achievement.
This committee will provide feedback to Smarter Balanced staff, work groups, and contractors to ensure that the assessments provide valid, reliable, and
fair measures of achievement and growth for
students with disabilities.