Reply to Opting out of PARCC testing in DC?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Opting out of PARCC testing in DC?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need to look in the mirror on the hate side.  This thread is full of hate and anger toward the test...  But, nobody has yet articulated anything SPECIFICALLY bad about the test.  That tends to tell me it's not really about the test.[/quote]

Exactly.  Would someone please clarify and articulate that.  Why exactly is this so BAD?  (All-caps just a reply to the original assertion.)[/quote]

What is bad about the test is that it is not a reliable reflection of student learning for a variety of reasons. Many of the questions are impossible to decipher for adults let alone 3rd graders who have recently mastered reading.  Many of the math questions are unclear. Many of the reading passages are not at an appropriate level for the age of the children taking the test. Multiple choices are purposefully designed to have 2 or 3 correct answers, yet one is "more correct" than the others. This is a reasonable approach to check the skills and knowledge of a teenager but elementary students--even the really smart ones---do not have the cognitive flexibility to make these kind of distractors a legitimate test of their knowledge/skills.

This is just a sample.  It is a bad test. There are good tests out there, but this one is not well-made. That makes it unfair and unjust and not a reliable measure.

Suggestion: go online, Google PARCC and take some of the sample tests yourself. You will quickly see what I am talking about if you do it with an open mind[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics