Posted on 11/20/2007 9:32:53 PM PST by neverdem
So many New York City students received extra time and other accommodations on a respected national test this year that several testing experts are saying the results should be considered invalid.
On the test known as the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, New York state gave accommodations to more fourth-graders than any other state in the nation, and New York City gave more help than any of the ten other major cities that participate in a separate city-by-city comparison. On three of four tests the accommodation rate hovered around 20%. On the last — a fourth-grade math exam city officials are trumpeting as evidence the Bloomberg administration's schools program is working — the rate was 25%.
The math test this year showed the city's fourth-graders making record gains, with 79% of students reaching the basic level, up from 73% in 2005 and 67% in 2003. At the same time, the number of students receiving legally allowed accommodations, such as extra time to take the test, having the test read out loud, and receiving a translation into the student's native language, more than doubled, to 25% this year from 12% in 2003.
Shown the numbers, several testing experts said they were shocked.
"That's a percentage which is large enough basically to invalidate the test,"...
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Mayor Bloomberg has staked his political career on the success of an effort to turn around the city's public schools, and his schools chancellor, Joel Klein, has been touting the NAEP test's results for New York City as proof the project is a success. In a long letter to a group of about 100,000 teachers, bureaucrats, and community members yesterday, Mr. Klein analyzed the results of this year's test closely, concluding it told "a story of good progress."
He did not mention...
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
“So many New York City students received extra time and other accommodations on a respected national test this year ...”
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This is just basic training for how to vote for your favorite Dimocrat.
OK, you passed.
Schools Chancellor = advanced Sanitation Engineer.
The NEA was created to produce ignorant and sheeplated Democrat voters, nothing more.
also see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928705/posts
NYC uses everyday math
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Thanks for the link. I was in the process of reading it already.
New York City is the kind of place where the “accommodations” given to students on these exams would probably include testing their English proficiency — in Spanish.
No wait, you didn't translate it into Spanish
Knowing how to use a calculator does not make one “math proficient.”
The whole state education appartchiks have succeeeded in sinking the whole system...I see college students who “graduated” from pubic schools who cannot write a coherent paragraph, can hardly read, and do basic elementary math.
But they do know that it is “Bush’s fault”
There is a similar situation in colleges but for different reasons.
If parents have money and their child is not academically successful they take their child to a psychiatrist who declares that he/she has a learning disorder and needs up to 200% more time to take a test. They can also ask for a separate administration after everyone else has taken the test because the kid gets nervous in the classroom with other students and can’t concentrate.
Unfortunately it is very common. I am not against students getting extra tutoring or help but when 10% of the class is getting extra time the other 90% are being penalized.
% not meeting proficient % " " basic
4th grade reading
white 53 19
black 83 48
hispanic 82 49
asian 50 21
all students 64 31
4th grade math
white 44 6
black 82 31
hispanic 75 26
asian 31 6
all students 57 15
8th grade reading
white 57 13
black 86 44
hispanic 84 44
asian 63 20
all students 68 25
8th grade math
white 61 18
black 90 54
hispanic 85 46
asian 47 14
all students 70 30
New York's $15,000 per student per year public education is clearly being wasted on about 2/3 of its students.
What’s the URL of the source, please?
“N.Y. Gave the Most Breaks for School Exam”
For trying to keep testing as NON-Standardized as possible, NY would
have to work hard to keep up with the Los Angeles Unified School District
(LAUSD; aka, “LA Mummified”).
During my decade in LA, even The Los Angeles Times would report that the
LAUSD would calmly admit that “the standardized test administered this
year is different from the one given last year...so year-to-year
comparisons are meaningless.”
Apparently this was something that PLEASED the illegals, Democratic
bosses and the LAUSD.
Total Unaccountability.
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