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Data Driven Sanity
Diane Ravitch has some more words of sanity on Data Driven policy making at the Bridging Differences blog. Click the link for the entire post; here is an excerpt: This approach rests squarely on the high-stakes use of testing. One … Continue reading
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Cherry Pick’n, Or When Scott Milfred Does Data Driven Policy
Scott Milfred’s column in the Sunday May 17, 2009 Wisconsin State Journal is a textbook example of the kind of foolishness people indulge in when they are dazzled by data that seems to support their favored policies. Mr. Milfred likes … Continue reading
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What Is Wrong With Data Driven Accountability — 17 Paragraphs, 4 Students (at most)
Some good news on the most recent WKCE scores from Nuestro Mundo, as covered in a 17 paragraph Capitol Times story. Good news, which like much achievement data is of limited use. The headline trumpets “Promising” gains and the big … Continue reading
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How Many Strikes? or Whither Accountability? #2
The Isotopes – “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” (click to listen or download) A recent post — Who cuts the barber’s hair? or Whither “accountability”? — centered on some of the failings of the new Wisconsin “Accountability” system designed … Continue reading
Who cuts the barber’s hair? or Whither “accountability”?
Professor Longhair, “Bald Head” (click to listen or download). Educational “accountability” is in the news and on the agenda again this week. It seems it is always in the news and on the agenda these days. I have many problems … Continue reading
Popping Balloons: Data, Evaluation and Accountabilty
At the Monday December 9th Madison Board of Education meeting there was much discussion of data, evaluation, and by implication, accountability. Most of this was in the context of the Reading Recovery program and the broader discussion of teaching reading … Continue reading
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Don’t “Get Lost in the Numbers”
I was cleaning out old links and came across this wonderful editorial from the Eau Claire Leader Telegram. It really really does a great job of explaining what is wrong with the “data driven” numbers obsessed educational policy decision-making and … Continue reading
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Sherman Dorn Asks THE QUESTION and Offers Some Answers
Longtime readers should know that Sherman Dorn is one of my favorite people in the edusphere. His recent “How can we use bad measures in decisionmaking?” is a fine example of why I value his contributions so much. His titular … Continue reading
Data _____Decision Making — MMSD Math Task Force Action
In an earlier post I wrote about the dangerous, counterproductive, if casual racism of the Math Task Force Report and in another I wrote about the almost complete lack of assessment of MMSD Middle School Math teacher knowledge and skills … Continue reading
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Quotes of the Day — Standardized Tests “Insensitive to Instruction”
Most states’ NCLB tests are, sadly, essentially insensitive to instruction, that is, those tests are unable to detect the impact of improved instruction in a school or district even if such improvement is unarguably present. The chief cause for such … Continue reading
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