Norms, test results and Lake Wobegon: a cautionary tale
As you are putting finishing touches on your district’s LCAP [...]
Free of the CAASPP/SBAC, and free to create new evidence of student learning
The appearance of the COVID-19 virus has led to the [...]
When Teachers Are Left Alone to Make Sense of Test Results, Half Get It Wrong
For more than 20 years, higher-ups have been urging educators [...]
Do you really know the work your assessment director is doing?
Over the past 20 years, I’ve met at least 60 [...]
Scholars scorch State Board’s resistance to a true growth measure
When the State Board of Education sat down on July [...]
Paul Warren Criticizes CAASPP’s Misuse in CDE’s Dashboard
Paul Warren, research associate at the Public Policy Institute [...]
How much progress do the CAASPP results reveal?
How often have you been asked: “Tell me whether our [...]
Pockets of 11th graders who refused to take the CAASPP
We Californians would like to think we’re special. Parents and [...]
Mismeasurement of gaps in LCAPs: bad arithmetic, bad logic
The serious subject of gaps has been a hot one [...]
California’s 2017 CAASPP trouble is common to most SBAC states
California’s troublingly flat result on the 2017 CAASPP English/language arts [...]
