Report Shows Many Admissions Offices Don't Have Current ACT/SAT Predictive Validity Studies
for further information, contact: Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 mobile (239) 699-0468 for immediate release with NACAC predictive validity report, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 MANY COLLEGES DON’T HAVE CURRENT ACT/SAT VALIDITY ANALYSES, ACCORDING TO NEW, NATIONAL ADMISSIONS STUDY; TEST-OPTIONAL ADVOCATES URGE SCHOOLS TO REVIEW REQUIREMENTS A report released today by the National Association for College Admissions […]
New Zealand Accountability Model
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Conceptions of accountability and the tools used in implementing accountability systems vary across the world. Few nations are as fixated as the U.S. on using standardized tests as the primary tool for both monitoring achievement and controlling the curriculum. The small nation of New Zealand, with about 500,000 students, provides […]
NCLB Reauthorization: The Battle Over Content
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner – October 2007 The House Education Committee draft bill to reauthorize “No Child Left Behind” incorporated some Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) goals, usually in a weakened form. But the proposal retained a test-based accountability system rather than shift to the balanced system FEA advocated. The FEA proposal […]
Performance-Based Assessment
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing by Martha Foote The New York Performance Standards Consortium includes 28 small high schools from across New York State, most in New York City. It was founded on the principles of school-as-community, professional development, and innovative curricula and teaching strategies. Recognizing that their students learn best when actively engaged, Consortium […]
New York Retention Battle
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing A controversial grade 3 retention program imposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has generated intense political and legal criticism. In response, City officials have launched a legal assault on parents who have organized against Bloomberg’s policy. In the face of decades of research clearly proving that holding students […]
Op-ed published in Charlotte (NC) on The National Resolution
Stop testing madness, create culture to truly prepare students Posted: Thursday, May. 17, 2012 – Charlotte Observer op ed From Pamela Grundy and Carol Sawyer, co-chairs of Mecklenburg Area Coming Together for Schools: It’s test week, and every public school teacher and parent in North Carolina knows what that means. Students taking End of Grade […]
Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning
Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner, November 2009 Independent researchers have found that evaluating and paying teachers for test scores is either damaging or irrelevant to improved learning. Unfortunately, even evidence of harm does not seem to affect the growing popularity of such schemes. Policymakers, including U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, should stop promoting […]
Teacher Testing Increases
Status: Archived Subject: Teacher & Employment Testing Congressional Republicans have called for regular testing of teachers across the nation, although they stopped short of proposing that the tests be mandatory. The proposal is part of a broad education bill announced by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R. Miss.) and other Republican leaders in Washington on […]
West Virginia
State Coordinators: Resources: UNITED OPT OUT COORDINATOR: Leigh Griffith