Date: Mar 16, 2012 1:36 AM
Author: Wayne Bishop
Subject: Re: Clear Creek TX sch. board resolution vs. high-stakes<br>  testing

I highly agree with your concept but my fear of the implementation 
trumps it.  For example, CLAS in California to decades ago, the New 
Standards Reference Exams of the last decade, and (only my guess but) 
the new assessments associated with the CCSS.  Use California's CST's 
(instead of replacing them altogether which I foresee) with fixed 
national cutoffs and I will be  a strong supporter.  What we will 
get?  Worse than nothing.

Wayne

At 09:01 AM 3/14/2012, Paul Tanner wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Wayne Bishop <wbishop@calstatela.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Monday of this week, I got get another student in my office for
> > advisement who received an A in his school's "AP 
> Calculus".  Since was among
> > the top group of the students, he was one of 10 or so who took the national
> > exam on which he scored a brilliant 1, the score you get for paying the fee
> > and signing your name.  He did not test out of our lowest 
> remedial class (we
> > have two in sequence)
> >
> > Wayne
> >
>
>What would help lessen this phenomenon would be at least in
>mathematics an expansion of the AP concept including a voluntary
>national exam down through most of k12.
>
>Not only that, but:
>
>It would help along the good notion of making more available in k12
>acceleration for the more gifted - it would encourage the creation of
>the logistics for this acceleration.