Reflections on Standardized Testing Forum
I attended the forum on standardized testing on Monday night at Thornton Creek Elementary. There were about 40 people there including parents and teachers. I sure wish more people had attended as it was a great discussion. I wish someone from the district could have been there to see that this is how you have a public discussion. Kudos and thanks to Chris Stewart for putting this on (and her speakers as well).
First up was Marian Wagner, a teacher from Salmon Bay, who spoke about some of the difficulties with MAP both from a logistic perspective and a teacher perspective. She said that at one point there had been a useful bubblesheet math test from Edu-Soft that the district math coaches had given out and she had found that useful but that has gone away.
She did point out that high achieving students don't get a lot out of MAP because their scores show no growth when, in fact, if she hasn't accelerated her teaching in class but MAP accelerates the questions but the kids
First up was Marian Wagner, a teacher from Salmon Bay, who spoke about some of the difficulties with MAP both from a logistic perspective and a teacher perspective. She said that at one point there had been a useful bubblesheet math test from Edu-Soft that the district math coaches had given out and she had found that useful but that has gone away.
She did point out that high achieving students don't get a lot out of MAP because their scores show no growth when, in fact, if she hasn't accelerated her teaching in class but MAP accelerates the questions but the kids