Saturday, November 26, 2005
More Confusion Over Standardized Test Scores
As we have mentioned in this space before, Sam Dillon of the New York Times provides several examples of places, like Tennessee, where students score well on state exams but do poorly on the National Assessment of Education Progress test. Massachusetts, explains Peter Schworm of the Boston Globe, has the opposite problem. The result is mass confusion over how testing should be handled as part of No Child Left Behind.