Campaign against Baseline Assessment The NUT, as part of the Better Without Baseline campaign, successfully campaigned against the introduction of baseline assessment for
school accountability purposes in September 2015.
Following the announcement that baseline assessments would not be used
for school accountability purposes, some media sources incorrectly reported that baseline schemes were not reliable; what the study, commissioned by the DfE, actually said was that the schemes were not comparable (because they were measuring different things).
First, from a policy perspective we maintain our argument that a fully - controlled proportional growth model is optimal for
school accountability purposes and that the USDOE's guidelines constitute bad public policy and should be amended.
And recently teachers» unions and the liberal Center for American Progress backed this type of «grade - span» approach for
school accountability purposes.
Baseline Assessment will not be used for
school accountability purposes, the DfE have announced.
The Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP test, offers certain advantages over the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, which is the only test that can be used for
school accountability purposes.
Voted to seek a waiver from the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provision that requires states to count non-tested students as zeros for
school accountability purposes.
Earlier this month, the Utah State Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for
school accountability purposes.
Thirty - nine states now administer some form of performance - based assessment; twenty - four states attach stakes to their tests; and forty states use tests scores for
school accountability purposes (Stecher and Barron 1999).
One California example of this kind of over-reach is the effort by a group of California school districts to somehow measure Social Emotional Learning for
school accountability purposes.