Although “Opt Out” has a few things right, the movement’s desire to do away with standardized testing is, in my opinion, a major mistake.
Without testing, we would not have access to rich data sets that tell us how our schools are truly performing.
With testing, we have an honest assessment of the academic strengths and weaknesses of our program. With testing, we can see achievement results (performance against a standard) and growth results (progress between two points in time). With testing, school boards have objective and benchmarked information on school performance.
In yesterday’s post we looked at PSSA Math results for UCF. Today, it is PSSA reading.
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