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Education

Claire Oh Nette

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1. Educators have always measured student groowth

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Tue Dec 7, 2021, 10:47 AM

Dec 2021

Politicians pushed testing, and they purposely compared apples to bananas.

This year's 4th graders are last year's 3rd graders.

Comparing this year's 4th graders to last year's 4th graders through their test scores is designed NOT to show growth. We knew testing showed growth, but we never got neat, tidy bar charts showing how the 4th graders of last year did as 5th graders this year.

Every teacher everywhere is saying, "Well, Duh."

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