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RE: Exemptions to STAR and other standardized testing
- Archived: Fri, 07 Jun 18:01
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
- Author: "Wurman, Ze'ev" <zeev@ieee.org>
- Subject: RE: Exemptions to STAR and other standardized testing
- Topic: Student Learning
To Nancy Barth:
"Bravo, JS Kelly! When the news is full of reports of kids who were told they failed their state's test, only to find out that wasn't true, it's time to look at a different way to evaluate our children...
I have a hard time with tests like the HSEE, which essentially discounts all the prior years of education a student has had. This is not a good thing for the children of California."
I have hard time understanding what is the beef here. Sporadic minor hiccups cannot be avoided in any system that tests 5 milion kids annualy. To Calif. credit it does not hide them, and fixes them as soon as it can. Not that there are so many of those around. And how HSEE "discounts all the prior years of education"? By demanding that when children graduate high school they can handle 7th grade material? With 4-5-6 chances of repeated exam taking? Please, give us a break!
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