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[quote=Anonymous][quote]No, SAT and ACT aren't high stakes at all. Nothing like determining whether you're going to get into college or the degree program you want. Heck, there's nothing at all high stakes about a kid's future, right?

Not "high stakes" my ass. You have a pretty warped definition of "high stakes" if the only thing you care about is how it affects teacher evaluations, but then you obviously don't give a shit about kids' futures.[/quote]

Again, totally different situations.  SAT and ACT are optional tests.  They are not required by the PUBLIC education system.  They are not paid for with PUBLIC tax dollars.  And, there are many colleges that do not require those in order to enter---so I don't think a kid's future won't be bright if they don't take them.  Maybe in your exclusive, elite, DC world this is true.  You are the one with the "warped" perspective.

High stakes is not just about teacher evaluations.  It's also about how students are "placed" in school based on these tests.  I have seen kids put in the wrong classes because of these scores.  Of course you are going to say that is a LOCAL problem again.  Sure, but it's a problem and it should not be swept under the rug either.  It also affects schools as a whole to have scores out in public with no explanation of why the scores are the way they are except for some people like you saying that the teachers don't give a shit about kids' futures.  It's really helpful to everyone to have a bunch of numbers that are hard to interpret in meaningful ways.

As for teacher evaluations, it's not clear that the tests are measuring the teachers at all.  They are measuring all kinds of stuff and teachers are probably one of the smallest parts.  There is no scientific research that links standardized test scores to teacher effectiveness.

I could care less about the linking of test scores to teacher evaluations.  I care about what this is all doing to the kids and education.  Most teachers are not in this profession for the money.  If they had wanted to earn money, they would have gone into testing psychometrics.   :wink: [/quote]

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