Parents from PAA-CT testify vs. high-stakes testing
Connecticut is currently in the process of developing a new statewide teacher evaluation system. The
proposed system originally called for 22.5% of every teacher’s evaluation to be based on standardized tests, despite the overwhelming evidence that basing teacher evaluations on standardized tests is completely unreliable, and despite the fact that currently in Connecticut, not all subjects or grades have standardized tests. Thus, the proposed system would either result in teachers being evaluated on tests taken in courses and/or grades they do not teach, or the imposition of some form of high stakes standardized tests in every grade and subject.
proposed system originally called for 22.5% of every teacher’s evaluation to be based on standardized tests, despite the overwhelming evidence that basing teacher evaluations on standardized tests is completely unreliable, and despite the fact that currently in Connecticut, not all subjects or grades have standardized tests. Thus, the proposed system would either result in teachers being evaluated on tests taken in courses and/or grades they do not teach, or the imposition of some form of high stakes standardized tests in every grade and subject.To make matters worse, the Education Commissioner, the superintendents’ association ,
