Donald Williams, CEA director of Policy, Research, and Reform and a member of the
Mastery Examination Committee,
highlighted a survey of Connecticut teachers, as well as a survey of teachers from other states, outlining serious concerns and issues with the validity, reliability, and fairness of the SBAC
test and the harm it is doing to children.
Both sets of documents
highlight key concepts from the standards and provide a bridge from the standards themselves to the instructional materials, professional development, and ultimately
tests that will measure student
mastery of the standards.