Waiting For ISAT -- Predicting The Results It's getting closer to the time when schools first see their unofficial ISAT scores -- way before they are publicly announced or officially approved by the state.
When do you think the scores are first going to start trickling out? Are scores going to be up or down for your school (or the whole district) this year? Were there any changes in the tests or the format that would make the scores go up or down independent of student achievement?
Your ISAT-related predictions, hopes, rumors and gossip are all welcome. Just for fun, I predict that the scores are flat or even down, but not so much that Duncan or Daley have to do anything about it. No one loses their jobs. Except those at low performing schools, of course.
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Thu May 8, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Waiting For ISAT -- Predicting The Results
at my top scoring elementary the scores will go down. We have a new principal :-(
We were previously ranked as one of the top 50 highest performing neighborhood schools by the Suntimes.
We were previously ranked as one of the top 50 highest performing neighborhood schools by the Suntimes.
Thu May 8, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Waiting For ISAT -- Predicting The Results
see if you can get them to leak the scores for the schools when the principals get them!!!
Fri May 9, 2008 at 4:53 AM
Waiting For ISAT -- Predicting The Results
Until people here understand the underlying statistical scam that's being played by so-called "standardized" tests, this thread will really be a hoot. Next things we'll hear, somebody will say (like JoAnn Roberts was doing eight years ago as "Intervention" chief) that you can bring scores "up" from the 20th to the 75th percentile in one year.
The deck's stacked, the game's rigged, and as long as people have faith in their oppressors, nothing's going to change. No matter what test is used, the "bottom" is staying the "bottom" (unless the kids are dumped, like was done at King High School years back). And as a result, whether under Arne or NCLB, the schools that serve the poorest children are a Free Fire Zone. Can be shut down for failure (excuse me, "underperformance") any time administration pleases.
So all the way down chain of command, the dirty work rolls on the heads of the classroom teachers in the roughest schools. AIO to principal -- all "data driven" of course -- to "coordinators" and suchlike.
Maybe this summer some people with a little time would like to join us in reading Berliner, Ohanian, Bracey, Rothstein, and some of the other people who've blown the whistle on this scam for the past ten years or more. Otherwise, this nonsense talk is aiding and abetting all of the teacher bashing that Daley wants to keep hot or hotter.
The deck's stacked, the game's rigged, and as long as people have faith in their oppressors, nothing's going to change. No matter what test is used, the "bottom" is staying the "bottom" (unless the kids are dumped, like was done at King High School years back). And as a result, whether under Arne or NCLB, the schools that serve the poorest children are a Free Fire Zone. Can be shut down for failure (excuse me, "underperformance") any time administration pleases.
So all the way down chain of command, the dirty work rolls on the heads of the classroom teachers in the roughest schools. AIO to principal -- all "data driven" of course -- to "coordinators" and suchlike.
Maybe this summer some people with a little time would like to join us in reading Berliner, Ohanian, Bracey, Rothstein, and some of the other people who've blown the whistle on this scam for the past ten years or more. Otherwise, this nonsense talk is aiding and abetting all of the teacher bashing that Daley wants to keep hot or hotter.
