Reply #34: Any standardized or criterion referenced test is going to fail

[tonysam]

simply because students don't take the tests seriously. Little kids are being forced to take these tests, starting around third grade for standardized and ALL grades for CRTs, and they either freak out over the tests or they rush through them, filling in the bubbles any which way. Yet teachers spent hours and hours and hours in "professional learning communities" or "grade-level meetings" planning for lessons which teach to these tests. Meanwhile, real learning is thrown aside because teachers MUST teach to the cookie-cutter curriculum.