Comments on NJ’s Teacher Evaluation Report & Gross Statistical Malfeasance
Posted on November 25, 2013
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A while back, in a report from the NJDOE, we learned that outliers are all that matters. They are where life’s important lessons lie! Outliers can provide proof that poverty doesn’t matter. Proof that high poverty schools – with a little grit and determination – can kick the butts of low poverty schools. We were presented with what I, until just the other day might have considered the most disingenuous, dishonest, outright corrupt graphic representation I’ve seen… (with this possible exception)!
Yes, this one:
This graph was originally presented by NJ Commissioner Cerf in 2012 as part of his state of the schools address. I blogged about this graph and several other absurd misrepresentations of data in the same presentation here & here.
This graph was originally presented by NJ Commissioner Cerf in 2012 as part of his state of the schools address. I blogged about this graph and several other absurd misrepresentations of data in the same presentation here & here.Specifically, I showed before that the absurd selective presentation of data in this graph