OK.
Here’s a KERA test question for “the rest of us.”
How many states scored a statistically significantly lower proficiency rate in the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress Grade Eight Writing Assessment than Kentucky?
Clues:
A total of 45 states participated.
Kentucky has had a hugely expensive writing portfolio program in its state assessment program ever since 1992.
No state excluded a higher proportion of its students from the federal assessment due to learning disabilities than Kentucky did.
In honor of what our kids have to do on CATS, this is an open-response question. However, we could just as easily have made it multiple-choice, at far less expense.
For the answer, see the first comment. NO PEEKING!
Friday, January 23, 2009
How Did Kentucky Do on the Latest Federal Writing Test?
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The answer is only 5 states out of the 45 that participated in the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Writing Assessment got a statistically significantly lower proficiency rate that Kentucky.
That’s all.
Now you know why 69 percent of the respondents to the Assessment and Accountability Task Force said take writing portfolios out of CATS. As our teachers overwhelmingly complain, portfolios as an assessment product are interfering with writing instruction.
Source: BIPPS analysis using the NAEP Data Explorer
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