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Although Cub Jim Popham never earned a merit badge either for potato-baking or student-testing, he occasionally has views on both topics. Periodically his badge-free opinions on educational assessment will be provided here. Potato-baking tips are unavailable.
CUB JIM’S FIVE MAXIMS FOR NCLB TESTS
1) NCLB tests should yield accurate accountability evidence, but also be instructionally supportive.
2) NCLB tests must measure the highest priority content standards.
3) NCLB tests must be accompanied by clear descriptions of what’s to be tested.
4) NCLB results must be reported so that the content standards a student has mastered are readily discernable.
5) Teachers should be provided with optional classroom assessments for NCLB-tested and other important content standards.
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An Autumnal Message: Let Fly the AYP Pigeons! |
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| Originally written as advice for those district school administrators who must make sense of the Adequate Yearly Progress reports arising from the No Child Left Behind Act, this essay highlights the importance of understanding what types of state-level tests have been used to gauge the progress of a school or district. Attention is given to... |
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Determining The Instructional Sensitivity Of Accountability Tests |
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| Educational accountability tests exist because of doubts regarding the caliber of schooling. Typically, accountability tests are mandated by policymakers who rely on a rationale that, once educators discover their instructional effectiveness is to be routinely appraised via students' performances on... |
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If I Were America’s Assessment Czar |
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| Three assessment specialists (Roger Farr, Cynthia Schmeiser, and Jim Popham) were asked to speak at the CCSSO Large-Scale Assessment Conference about how, if they were America’s assessment czar or czarina, they would direct the nation’s educational assessment activities to be carried out. This is Popham’s presentation at the June 2003 meeting in... |
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Options, Options Not Many! |
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| Cub Jim concludes that public school educators will, of necessity, work in a state whose accountability tests for the No Child Left Behind Act are either instructionally supportive or not. If the former, then an educator is fortunate and, at least for the first few years of NCLB’s existence, has a chance to succeed. If the latter, then the... |
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