This test was administered in January and the 2nd part, short answers, were hand scored in February and the computer sheets filled in.
The State is blaming others, but they have had this problem for years.
The November Social Studies test scores come out in April or May. Again, why so long? The Science test given in May does not get released until the following October.
In this day and age, how can tests scored by computers take so long?
From what I have been reading, other states manage to get in done in a timely matter.
This is the same NYS DoE that is withholding certification for so many teachers because of incompetence. Hopefully the next governor will look into this mess and appoint a new commissioner to do the job properly.
Schoolgal's right on this one. If you're looking for someone to hold accountable, it's the state. In any case, it's not like we're talking about A+ kids here. Low level 2 is still serious academic trouble...
I can't imagine these kids making the transition from elementary school to middle school three weeks late and alone.
I teach an advanced placement calculus class where kids are often added to the class 2 to 3 weeks after the semester has started. These kids, the brightest of the bright, often have a hard time catching up, and some never do. Now think about the lower end being put in a similar situation--they can't make it. They don't have the ability or the motivation to do it. Many have parents unable to help. With class large class sizes there is no way to help these kids recapute the work they missed.
If the state is responsible (and I'm not saying it isn't), why aren't we hearing about this problem from other districts?
NYC, it's because other districts don't have the promotion policy explicitly tied to the test scores. But the problem is still that the state was slow in scoring the test. Instead of having final results by the end of the school year, they came up with preliminary numbers of students at level 1 in 3rd/5th/7th (the promotion policy grades). These students went to summer school and were held back only after they scored level 1 again during the summer and a teacher and principal reviewed their work over the last year and determined it reflected level 1. So again, we're not exactly talking about outstanding students here. But regardless, if the state had scored the tests by the end of the year, all of this would've been avoided. You can hardly blame the city for enforcing its own policy based on the data the state came up with.
Doesn't that suggest the city's policy is flawed, particularly if no one else had this problem?
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