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2 months ago | 
educationnext.org | Lynn Olson |Thomas Toch |Chad Aldeman |Dale Chu
Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated unprecedented drops in student learning. Apart from a pandemic-induced pause in spring 2020, state testing systems remained in place throughout that stretch—but failed to halt the decline.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
The obfuscation of student data Posted at 10:09h in News and Resources By Dale ChuThere’s a long list of grievances when it comes to standardized testing.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
The best of a bad lot: Weighing updates to annual testing Posted at 10:54h in News and Resources By Dale ChuOne of the most frustrating aspects of the future of assessment conversation is the absence of specifics.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
eduprogress.org | Chad Aldeman |Dale Chu
By Chad Aldeman and Dale ChuIn a report for FutureEd last month, Lynn Olson and Tom Toch advocate for a “matrix sampling” approach to federally required achievement tests. Basically, instead of testing all kids in grades 3-8, states could test just a sample of students and still get high-level accountability results. As Dale noted last week, this approach seems to be gaining steam as a way to break the assessment stalemate.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
About 25 million kids will sit down to take a state test this spring. When can parents reasonably expect to see their child’s results:A. Within 2 weeks!B. By the end of JuneC. By the start of the next school yearD. Next fall maybe? “A” is a tempting answer. After all, kids take the tests on computers, which allows for instantaneous scoring.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
assessmenthq.org | Chad Aldeman |Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
States should use test scores to increase student enrollment in advanced math Posted at 09:32h in News and Resources By: Chad Aldeman and Dale Chu Of the many ways poor and minority students are often given short shrift by schools, none may be more insidious than being automatically subjugated to remedial level work when they could be enrolled in advanced courses. Six states have endeavored to tackle this problem head on by enacting “automatic enrollment” laws: Washington, North Carolina,...
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Chad Aldeman |Josh Parrish
Guest Post: Standardized tests are good…we should listen to what the results are telling us Posted at 11:18h in News and Resources By: Dale Chu and Chad Aldeman Chad Aldeman is a nationally recognized expert on education policy and my compatriot on the EduProgress: Unpacked blog. There are few people in the education sector as well-respected as Chad. He’s also a friend, and incredibly endearing whenever he laments the plodding pace at which states slow walk their assessment results. Today,...
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Chad Aldeman |Josh Parrish
Guest Post: Standardized tests are good…we should listen to what the results are telling us Posted at 13:08h in News and Resources By: Dale Chu and Chad Aldeman Chad Aldeman is a nationally recognized expert on education policy and my compatriot on the EduProgress: Unpacked blog. There are few people in the education sector as well-respected as Chad. He’s also a friend, and incredibly endearing whenever he laments the plodding pace at which states slow walk their assessment results. Today,...
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
assessmenthq.org | Chad Aldeman |Jocelyn Pickford |Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
Bright spots and a missed opportunity in new bipartisan call to action Posted at 12:47h in News and Resources By: Chad Aldeman, Jocelyn Pickford, and Dale Chu In a refreshing display of collaboration, the Building Bridges initiative recently released a call to action to “quickly and dramatically improve the learning opportunities for today’s students.” They diagnose the problems in a clear but sobering way: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a crisis in our education system—with student...
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
assessmenthq.org | Dale Chu |Josh Parrish
Years late and a dollar short in Vermont Posted at 09:27h in News and Resources By Dale Chu States are notoriously slow when it comes to releasing annual test results, but the state of Vermont took apathy to new lows a couple of weeks ago when, as part of a Friday news dump, the state finally released its 2022 state assessment results for schools and districts. Some states have already released their data for 2023, so putting 2022 results out now is a unique form of not giving a flying fudge....
