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Something else I forgot to mention. Standardized tests
are designed to provide results distributed along a
bell curve; the narrower the bell, the better the
outcome.
The results from grade 3 & 5 tests in both subjects
provide a "bucket curve" which is not normal.
Grade 7 is a bell curve which has been skewed toward
the "below average" side of the scale which is not
desirable, but is a more "normal" (or explainable)
outcome.
Since the amount of test takers finding themselves
either unable to answer the questions at all or
finding them very easy to answer are fairly evenly
divided, with the "average" group consisting of a
minority one might suspect that the curriculum is
poorly targeted or poorly executed or the test itself
is poorly crafted.
This would be more plausable if "bucket curves" were
appearing evenly within the state, but they aren't.
I do find it troubling, but I don't have an answer.
This may all become a moot point however since the
Prof's. of Learn. are gone. Now we will have to wait
until we get a few years results' from the re-tooled
standards to see what happens.
TJSwift
Cherokee Park Protectorate
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