Common Core SBAC Test Designed to ID 9 in 10 Special Education Children as Failures
The Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Test is intentionally designed to ensure that the vast majority of students are deemed failures. [The Common Core PARCC test is no better]
According to SBAC’s own official policy, the Common Core SBAC test is designed so that almost 7 in 10 children who take the “mandatory” test fail to reach “goal” in math and about 6 in 10 are deemed failures in English Language Arts.
Making the Common Core SBAC Test even more inappropriate is that the fact that the 2014 SBAC Field Test results prove that the test discriminates against students who come from poor households, students who are not proficient in the English Language (English Language Learners) and students who need special education services.
Perhaps the most outrageous reality of all is that the Common Core SBAC test is rigged to ensure that the almost all students who require special education services are deemed to be failures.
Not only is the Common Core SBAC Test unfair and inappropriate, it is nothing short of immoral and unethical.
According the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Disaggregated Field Test Data for 2014, the cut scores that have been set for this year’s test are designed to produce the following results
Projected Failure Rate for Special Education Students with IEPs on the Common Core SBAC Math Section
| 4th Grade Math – Special Education Students with IEPs | 87.1% WILL FAIL |
| 6th Grade Math – Special Education Students with IEPs | 91.3% WILL FAIL |
| 8th Grade Math – Special Education Students with IEPs | 90.3% WILL FAIL |
| 11TH Grade Math – Special Education Students with IEPs | 92.5% WILL FAIL |
Projected Failure Rate for Special Education Students with IEPs on Common Common Core SBAC Test Designed to ID 9 in 10 Special Education Children as Failures - Wait What?:
