new insights into what went wrong with Wilson's PARCC scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For you recent commenters, you need to go back and read the thread. All these issues about scheduling, differences vis-a-vis other schools, etc., have been discussed.

In any event, the students didn't make Wilson look bad. Rather, they exposed the flaws of the whole PARCC paradigm and the incompetence of the Central Office in implementing it.

It may have also exposed testing irregularities. You are not supposed to leave the testing room before the 90 minutes are over - it's likely disruptive to other students.

So if Wilson students were also allowed to rush, answer all multiple choice with A in hopes of finishing quickly the proctors were also misinformed or didn't follow the guidelines. If you're goig to be there for 90 minutes answer the questions to the best of your ability.

DCPS central office and Wilson admins look very bad, and the students don't get a free pass either.

There is no way they allowed all those students to leave, and where would they go to? It's all hands on deck during testing in a high school, almost every teacher is either administering or proctoring an assessment. I don't believe it. It would have been reported. Also, all buildings had reviewers from downtown in the building to make sure that the tests were administered with fidelity, granted not as many as during the cheating scandal but enough to notice if so many students were walking out of testing. I smell cover-up!!!

[Anonymous]

^^Go read the Washington Post article (linked earlier in this thread) and the rest of this thread, and then come back and expound on your presumptions about how the testing works.

[Anonymous]

that article gives random quotes and zero supporting evidence of what actually happened.

the PARCC testing authorities should examine this if DCPS can't handle the investigation.

[Anonymous]

PARCC is owned by Pearson, a text book publisher. They have the wrong incentives to investigate anything.

[Anonymous]

PARCC = Pearson getting rich off testing our kids. Our kids are nothing but dollars in their pockets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is striking that the test was exposed because of practical, student-based decisions rather than an organized parent-led effort. Imagine what would happen if parents organized.

Reminds me of the scene from "Matilda" when children were to be punished if they failed a cruel and arbitrary test. All the students, even the smart ones, started giving answers that were as arbitrary as the questions. Very powerful moment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For you recent commenters, you need to go back and read the thread. All these issues about scheduling, differences vis-a-vis other schools, etc., have been discussed.

In any event, the students didn't make Wilson look bad. Rather, they exposed the flaws of the whole PARCC paradigm and the incompetence of the Central Office in implementing it.

It may have also exposed testing irregularities. You are not supposed to leave the testing room before the 90 minutes are over - it's likely disruptive to other students.

So if Wilson students were also allowed to rush, answer all multiple choice with A in hopes of finishing quickly the proctors were also misinformed or didn't follow the guidelines. If you're goig to be there for 90 minutes answer the questions to the best of your ability.

DCPS central office and Wilson admins look very bad, and the students don't get a free pass either.

+1.

The students did initially look pretty bad to me, but now I see them more as heroes and whistleblowers, exposing the incompetence of so many adult "educators"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For you recent commenters, you need to go back and read the thread. All these issues about scheduling, differences vis-a-vis other schools, etc., have been discussed.

In any event, the students didn't make Wilson look bad. Rather, they exposed the flaws of the whole PARCC paradigm and the incompetence of the Central Office in implementing it.

It may have also exposed testing irregularities. You are not supposed to leave the testing room before the 90 minutes are over - it's likely disruptive to other students.

So if Wilson students were also allowed to rush, answer all multiple choice with A in hopes of finishing quickly the proctors were also misinformed or didn't follow the guidelines. If you're goig to be there for 90 minutes answer the questions to the best of your ability.

DCPS central office and Wilson admins look very bad, and the students don't get a free pass either.

There is no way they allowed all those students to leave, and where would they go to? It's all hands on deck during testing in a high school, almost every teacher is either administering or proctoring an assessment. I don't believe it. It would have been reported. Also, all buildings had reviewers from downtown in the building to make sure that the tests were administered with fidelity, granted not as many as during the cheating scandal but enough to notice if so many students were walking out of testing. I smell cover-up!!!

Were you at wilson? there aren't enough laptops for every student to take the test in one morning, instead a few kids from each class are pulled out, tested in a random classroom and then released so they can go back to class when they're done

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^Go read the Washington Post article (linked earlier in this thread) and the rest of this thread, and then come back and expound on your presumptions about how the testing works.

I know how testing works because I am employed by DCPS, and I can tell you for a fact that students en masse did not walk out of the testing rooms.

[Anonymous]

How could Walls go from having the top scores in the first year of testing to dropping like it did. On the flip side, how could Banneker's scores have went up so much? Also, look at the SAT scores of all schools. Walls has the highest average scores. Something is not adding up when I saw the scores.