Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Not very smart or balanced.
My turn to say it.
Anyone that knows anything about high stakes standardized tests knows that performance on these tests is
“The common core is nothing more than a new product designed to suck tax dollars from public schools. The tax dollars will be spent on assessment systems that do nothing for children, teachers and schools.”How do I know? I received an invitation from the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to review the Achievement Level Descriptors and College Content-Readiness on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s web site. I went to the site and before I even had the chance to start my review I read:
ALDs describe performance on a standardized test in terms of levels or categories of performance.Whoomp there it is!
Anyone that knows anything about high stakes standardized tests knows that performance on these tests is