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Friday, March 2, 2012

School Tech Connect: Nobody's Going To Wait Years For Anything

School Tech Connect: Nobody's Going To Wait Years For Anything:

Nobody's Going To Wait Years For Anything

I've been warning about this phenomenon for centuries.
Heverly is pointing to something important but unmentioned in the Common Core debates that I have read. These new tests in nearly every state will delay, if not stop altogether, the national move towardrating teachers by student score improvements. School districts can’t do that when the tests change so radically. They might have to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests before using them to assess teachers.
That could kill the desire to assess teachers with test results.
Valerie's talking about the age-old difference between a feature and a bug. These new tests? That don't exist yet? They're going to come online at the exact moment when teachers and schools are being graded on the test results. It's a feature.

The only thing that these raw new tests--- that are theoretically based on CCS-based curricula that also don't