State Assessment Results: “It Just Doesn’t Matter”
Even though we opted our oldest out of the third grade state assessments last year, an error occurred and her blank math test answer form was scanned and sent on to the New York State Education Department. As a result, we received a Parent Report from NYSED via our school. I am glad this occurred because it helped me to see the actual report for the first time. We informed the school and my child’s score will not count towards the school’s rating. Either way. the actual score, even if my child took the test, would be meaningless to me, a snapshot in time does not reflect the progress of a student.
We did not receive a report for my daughter’s third grade ELA test, since the school pulled her answer sheets and marked the “999″ refusal code. My daughter is currently in fourth grade, does not qualify for academic intervention and has had no academic consequences for boycotting the state assessments. As a result of the refusal code, her school or teacher are not hurt as well.
This report has added more proof that the high-stakes state assessments have absolutely no validity and do not help parents or teachers improve the education of our children.
Lack of Information for parents.
The information provided by this report does not give a parent any specific way to help our children. Target ranges? Performance level? What we need is to see the actual test questions and our child’s answers. We get
We did not receive a report for my daughter’s third grade ELA test, since the school pulled her answer sheets and marked the “999″ refusal code. My daughter is currently in fourth grade, does not qualify for academic intervention and has had no academic consequences for boycotting the state assessments. As a result of the refusal code, her school or teacher are not hurt as well.
This report has added more proof that the high-stakes state assessments have absolutely no validity and do not help parents or teachers improve the education of our children.
The information provided by this report does not give a parent any specific way to help our children. Target ranges? Performance level? What we need is to see the actual test questions and our child’s answers. We get