Reply #70: Assessment is important!

[cjbgreen]

The question is who is deciding and what kinds of assessment and what is important for children to learn and we need to use the data to revise, reteach and identify how well a group is learning and how best to teach. If you don't provide people time to learn how to use the data to improve their teaching what value is it? Sometimes it is as simple as an item was not taught before the test was administered but was taught later in the year. There are many variables and using assessment as a sledge hammer is not the answer. I think we are in agreement.