They understand that
no single standardized test is an adequate measure of learning.
The schools must administer
a single standardized test, but can choose the type.
While ESSA required states to add in a couple of additional outcome measures of students and schools, the overwhelming weight of accountability is still upon
a single standardized test by which to make important and often high - stakes judgments about students, schools, and districts.
«Nowhere in research does it say that the results of
a single standardized test score measure the effectiveness of a teacher,» CEA President Sheila Cohen told legislators this evening.
First, I told him that teachers worry that the metric, based on
a single standardized test, may be too unreliable to separate out their individual impact from the influence of other factors, both within and beyond school.
The days of California's reliance on
a single standardized test for accountability purposes are over.