The Echo

What can we expect to see?

Here's one districts take on Computer-Adaptive Growth Model Assessment:

Separating growth from value added: two academic models offer different tools for different purposes--measuring individual learning and measuring what affects learning.

Could it be true that we were shortchanging our brightest students?
Over the years a handful of parents in the Rochester, N.H., schools had complained that their high-performing children were bored by our curriculum. Because these reports were small in number, we were unsure whether they signaled a teaching problem or reflected students' desire to be entertained. These students were performing well above the 90th percentile on our standardized assessments, and the number of students moving to the top achievement levels was increasing...

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