Wednesday, June 6, 2012

FCAT “An Academic and Psychological Piece of Junk” | Scathing Purple Musings

FCAT “An Academic and Psychological Piece of Junk” | Scathing Purple Musings:


FCAT “An Academic and Psychological Piece of Junk”

It’s useful to counter the narrative of test-based policy-makers with observations of folks who do this stuff for a living. Consider the following from Dr. Perry Miller writing in the Sun-Sentinel:
In two separate articles of May 26, both of which included Commissioner of Education Gerard Robinson’s thoughts regarding the FCAT testing program, it became evident that the Commissioner has not the foggiest understanding or knowledge that the FCAT is an academic and psychological piece of junk . It costs Florida taxpayers thousands of dollars, and accomplishes nothing but creates confusion and misery for classroom teachers and the children involved plus their parents and ends up telling us nothing about the children’s progress or academic abilities.
I hold two different earned doctoral degrees with one in psychology and the other in education, plus