[AAACE-NLA] AAACE-NLA Digest, Vol 53, Issue 19

[gdemetrion@msn.com]

"Tom, you said a better question to ask is, "Where is the evidence that either the NAEP or a state-specific standardized test accurately assesses the mastery of important content and skills directly or indirectly?"  I agree, that really is the central question.  The answer would be found in the validation reports of the exams.  Hopefully national and state assessments were validated with greater scrutiny than was the Teacher's Network Survey."  

Kearney, Tom, others,

I agree that would be valuable.  Short of such an apparently elusive quest since there is no singular curriculum or even core objectives undergirding the field, whatever assessments are used can be appropriated with a certain degree of validity (I'm using that term in the un-technical sense) if they are taken for what they are--as indictors--and analyzed accordingly and placed n juxtaposition with other relevant information.

I think at some level this can be applied both to assessment utilization for direct instructional/programmatic purposes AND for reporting purposes to the extent that programs are able to provide explanatory context whether in written or verbal form.

It depends in part on the sophistication of your program and the various network communities in which your agency is embedded.

George Demetrion
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