Study Warns Against Reliance on Testing Data
States and districts are increasingly using test scores to reward or punish schools, but a study out of Chicago cautions that norm-referenced, standardized tests are not appropriate for such purposes.
The study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, a federation of local groups, focused on Chicago's use of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills to identify low-performing schools. It concluded that using the testing system for those purposes raises significant...
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