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What are your thoughts on this article? "Educational Assessments are Valid, Reliable, and Remarkably Predictive"
(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
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"Educational Assessments" are not equivalent to "Standardized Testing."
Hey guys, is it leftist to want your kids' teachers to assess the kids they teach based on the courses they develop instead of a third party assessment program that requires teachers to throw away any educational plan they make and teach exclusively to the test the third party makes?
I did not go to public school in a liberal place, everybody complained about the standardized tests in the deep red state I grew up in.
No, Freddie, the tests don't just reveal racial stratification, they enforce it. That's the critique. We already know there's racial stratification, nobody needs the calipers measuring a kid's head to figure this out.
Education assessment is not the same thing as standardized testing. Me getting a bad grade on a vocabulary test and getting a low score on an IQ test will not have the same consequences for my life. One gives my teacher some means of figuring out if I need to work harder to learn the vocabulary, of it there is some issue that is keeping me from learning the vocabulary. Your SAT score isn't something that tells somebody where you need to do more learning, it categorizes you individually or as a group and allows for that score to be used as a shortcut in deciding whether you get into another educational program.