Scholars scorch State Board’s resistance to a true growth measure

When the State Board of Education sat down on July [...]

How much progress do the CAASPP results reveal?

How often have you been asked: “Tell me whether our [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:40:33-07:00June 19th, 2018|accountability, assessment|0 Comments

Pockets of 11th graders who refused to take the CAASPP

We Californians would like to think we’re special. Parents and [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:46:02-07:00April 27th, 2018|accountability, assessment|0 Comments

Mismeasurement of gaps in LCAPs: bad arithmetic, bad logic

The serious subject of gaps has been a hot one [...]

By |2020-01-08T07:40:39-08:00February 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, dashboard, gap analysis, LCAP, Policy|0 Comments

California’s 2017 CAASPP trouble is common to most SBAC states

California’s troublingly flat result on the 2017 CAASPP English/language arts [...]

By |2019-08-23T13:51:46-07:00January 16th, 2018|accountability, assessment, Policy|0 Comments

Time to see gaps from new angles

When we discuss achievement gaps or gaps in opportunities to [...]

By |2017-11-01T21:54:50-07:00November 1st, 2017|assessment, data viz, gap analysis, research|0 Comments