Basically — when you've got someone like Coutinho getting the nod over other clearly more adept players you can pretty much disregard
the validity of the whole thing as just picking «flavour of the month» rather then actually a reflection of the best players.
Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack
of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or
validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 %
of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a
whole other set
of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)