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Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing While continuing to face an array of problems in its innovative state assessment program, Kentucky has largely stayed the course it charted when it implemented the Kentucky Instructional Results Information Service (KIRIS) program. The problems, however, have induced the legislature to revisit KIRIS in its next session, at which time […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing A Fall 1997 Examiner article on Kentucky reported that the scoring of performance events was being revised “due to reliability problems” and that the performance events would be administered but not included in accountability scores because they “lacked sufficient reliability. . . for use in a high-stakes accountability program.” Advanced […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The reliability of scoring Kentucky s writing portfolios has increased substantially over the past three years, according to an independent review of 6,592 portfolios from 100 schools conducted to assure comparability among schools. The independent readers agreed with the original school scores at a rate of 73.1 percent for portfolios […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Recently approved legislation will require Kentucky to replace its often-praised but controversial Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) assessment program. The new Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS), which is to begin in the spring of 1999, will be designed by the state Board of Education. Several advisory committees also have […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing by Ken Jones In the current fever over using high-stakes testing for accountability, little discussion has been given to how this strategy affects the democratic purposes of schools. Most of the time, test scores are treated as ends in themselves, as if they can stand alone as clear indicators of […]

State Coordinators: Alan Young Resources: Coordinator Needed.