CATS Changes May Be Nearer

Here’s the latest on the bill to change CATS testing from the Courier-Journal.

What’s new here is that Representative Harry Moberly now seems willing to completely remove the writing portfolios from the assessment. Instead, these would be used as instructional tools with their use monitored by Frankfort (a plan we have supported for some time).

That’s a position change for Moberly. During hearings at the Kentucky Department of Education’s Assessment and Accountability Task Force last year, Moberly at one point bemoaned removing portfolios from CATS. Apparently, Moberly has now seen and heard enough to finally see that a portfolio change is in Kentucky’s best interests.

You can see how using portfolios in CATS ties our writing teachers’ hands by watching this video.



Maybe Representative Moberly has seen it, too.