For a moment, I kind of felt like Betsy DeVos, the new education secretary. The moment was when U.S. Sen. Al Franken asked DeVos during her confirmation hearing about her thoughts on using assessments ...
I recently had the good fortune to see U.S. Sen. Al Franken at Town Hall Seattle, where he talked about his questioning of Betsy DeVos, now Secretary of Education. (If you haven’t seen this on YouTube ...
During the Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday of Department of Education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) described an experience contrasting proficiency to growth and used ...
It doesn’t sound particularly sexy, but the growth-versus-proficiency debate is one of the most consequential to have shaped education policy in recent years. The “proficiency” approach amounts to ...
Standardized tests reflect little of what you have learned. Rather, they reveal how well you test. Students who test well have advantages over those who have average or low test-taking ability. The ...
These measures are closer to identifying schools’ unique contributions to student learning than NCLB’s proficiency rate measure. Even in states where achievement levels remain an important part of the ...
More than 40 testing researchers and education officials have signed onto a letter to Education Secretary John B. King Jr., calling for the Education Department to move away from using proficiency ...
What is proficiency? Why does it matter? How can we assess it? How does it differ from other kinds of assessment? And what does proficiency assessment tell us that helps to improve learning? David ...
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