I concluded long ago that ISTEP is a political sha...

2015-12-13T10:14:05.276-05:00

I concluded long ago that ISTEP is a political sham perpetrated by politicians attempting to show they are "doing something" to improve public education when the facts prove opposite. Society's problems can often be laid at the feet of politicians "doing something" as their attempts to engineer- as in the now sad state of public education- fail no matter how much money these career politicians throw at the NEA or toss out through their social legislation.

If you click on the link, be sure to read the comm...

2015-12-13T09:40:10.717-05:00

If you click on the link, be sure to read the comments....wherein the errors of the story are brought to light and some of the motives of those howling are also. I really do think ISTEP is not suitable for teacher evaluation. It was not designed for such use. ISTEP did have e a valuable protection for teachers at one time, a crude measure of IQ per classroom. While not a total absolution, say, for IPS, it did give a leg to stand on since most of IPS was well below average in IQ. The ISTEP test results could be suggestive of bad teachers and data mining for all of Indiana along those lines would cost less than $250,000 or so but that would only be showing up the bad teachers, suggestively, only maybe 8% or less. I have little doubt that further investigation would be needed and useful were the evaluation sorts empowered to make changes including immediate termination of disaster level teachers.
The concerted effort by our dopes to end accurate description of student academic achievement is criminal. A kid or a parent or a taxpayer has but two methods by which the truth of the matter can be obtained: The opinion of a well educated and informed teacher well versed in the subject matter being taught (lots of luck with that one in Indiana), 2) well designed standardized tests designed to inform...not the ISTEP as modified by those who wished to continue the lying).

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I concluded long ago that ISTEP is a political sha...

If you click on the link, be sure to read the comm...