The multiple measure scam.
Both students and teachers are victims of the multiple measure scam.
This is the latest in the long line of education mumbo-jumbo that is being used to substitute teacher knowledge with high stakes tests and off-the-shelf computerized assessments.
Students lose because of wasted precious classroom time and stress. Teachers lose because it undermines our own professional knowledge and because these measures are now being used for performance reviews.
In Illinois, our own state union leadership promotes their use to justify PERA, the new teacher evaluation rules