Ed Roeber, Director of Assessment for the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, DC, discusses how erroneous conclusions often are drawn when the results of assessment tests are misinterpreted. Excerpted from the audiotape Policy Talks, audiotape #2, Reaching for New Goals and Standards: The Role of Testing in Educational Reform Policy (NCREL, 1994).
"The public typically thinks that achievement data is somehow the rating of the building, that there's something about the bricks and mortar that caused that achievement, that if the scores are low in building A and high in building B, I can take a low scoring kid out of building A and send him to building B, and now poof, they're now a high achiever."
Date posted: 1995