It is
a true measure of your achievements.
Not exact matches
That is, the
true test
of the predictive power
of «noncog»
measures is not whether they are correlated with cognitive
measures (like
achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.
It's
true that Eisenberg failed to find a correlation between teachers» GPAs and their students»
achievement, but GPA is considered a fairly crude
measure of a teacher's subject - matter knowledge; teachers presumably take courses in college other than those in their subject area, courses that might drag their GPAs down.
It is indeed a good thing that we have those other
measures because it's
true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many
of us saw as one
of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to
measure, monitor, and compare student
achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.
«We did support un-timed tests as providing a
truer measure of a student's level
of achievement,» Lowry said.
This was
true with both the
achievement measures and most
of the resource distribution information (with the notable exception
of the programmatic resources).
Also, effect sizes as traditionally
measured have led analysts to understate the magnitudes
of effects because the standard deviation
of observed scores overstates the dispersion
of true achievement in the student population.
Assessment experts advise teachers to collect multiple
measures of assessment evidence to paint a
true picture
of student
achievement.
Indeed, while these phenomena hold
true regardless
of race, Pinellas» disproportionate use
of exclusionary discipline
measures on black students undoubtedly contributes to the double - digit
achievement gap.