Hi, Rik:
It's nice to know that someone is reading my website and using the links!
The Homeschooling faqs moved to
while I wasn't looking.
Margaret
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At 06:06 PM 6/14/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Margaret,
I noticed some dead links while looking
refers to
which is 404
Oops: I forgot the other one I saw earlier.
Thanx for the good work.
On 2005 Jun 14, at 11:31 AM, Margaret DeLacy wrote:
Friends:
Below is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the School
Administrator. For more on Value-Added (or "progress assessment")
you can
go to
I was interested in this use of value-added assessments to facilitate
mastery-based grouping.
Margaret
The School Administrator Web Edition
February 2003
Growth Measures:
Don't Call 'em 'Value Added'
BY BRETT SCHAEFFER
Gage Kingsbury, director of research at the Northwest Evaluation
Association, takes great pains to explain the Portland, Ore.-based
consulting firm does not conduct value-added assessment.
What NWEA does, says Kingsbury, is create its own computer-based
tests,
which are administered to students every nine weeks and which measure
a
student's academic growth.
So where value-added assessment is a process to measure yearly student
progress, NWEA crafts tests called Measures of Academic Progress to
track
academic gains and losses quarter to quarter.....
A Leveling Effect
Formed in 1974 as a partnership between Portland-area school
districts and
the Seattle Public Schools, NWEA was incorporated as a nonprofit in
1977.
It now works on a contractual basis with 1,300 districts in 40
states.....
In addition to the rapid turnaround, NWEA's tests also offer district
leaders more detailed information than many other standardized tests,
says
Linda Clark, superintendent of Meridian, Idaho's Joint School
District 2 in
Idaho.....
The 28,000-student Meridian district has been using NWEA's tests for
nine
years, starting with the organization's paper-and-pencil versions.
"Virtually all of our elementary schools are leveling," says Clark,
meaning
students are grouped based on their skills as gauged by the detailed
NWEA
tests rather than in grade levels. "A 9-year-old might not be in
something
called 4th grade. Instead, he may be taking middle school math or
reading
at a lower level," she says. By grouping students this way, Clark
says, the
district can maximize the abilities of instructional staff and provide
students with an ongoing learning challenge.
The rest of Idaho's 126 public school districts, as well as the
state's 14
charter districts and 15 private school districts have followed
Clark's
lead. Three years ago the Idaho Department of Public Instruction
contracted
with NWEA to develop a new statewide exam, the Idaho Standards
Achievement
Test.
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