School Tech Connect: Waiting For The Testing Tide To Turn

School Tech Connect: Waiting For The Testing Tide To Turn:

Waiting For The Testing Tide To Turn

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)

 

Diane's got a post up about the NYDOE encouraging its teachers to lie to students about the purpose of a new test they're running in June.

It's a field test, which means they're just running the questions through the computers to establish reliability, or whatever. Pearson is entitled to the free time and labor of our already test-stressed kids to participate in product development for new revenue sources.

Last week, the New York State Education Department sent out a memo instructing teachers that they must not tell students that the June tests are field tests. They must pretend that it is a real test.

Parents were aghast that the State Education Department would