Margin Of Error On Standardized Tests
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of fun Knerd news.Adaptive LearningCEO Jose FerreiraEd TechEd Tech 101Education InfographicsEducation VideosKnerdsStudent ResourcesTeacher FeatureTeacher Tools It’s Not “Big Data vs. Teachers” — It’s “Big Data vs. Standardized Tests” Posted in CEO Jose Ferreira on standardized testing cons June 25, 2014 by Jose Ferreira People often think that big
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data for education is a new thing. And it’s true that using big data the way google scholar Knewton does sounds almost like science fiction — our engine passively “norms” content at scale, uses normed content to determine students’ conceptual proficiencies to the percentile, and makes granular content recommendations for each student based on the combined anonymized data of all the other students in our network.But there is an older, bricks-and-mortar type of big data for education: standardized tests.People always ask me whether I think standardized tests actually measure anything. I used to give nerdy statistical answers about scoring validity and such. Eventually I realized that all they want to hear is that standardized tests are useless, possibly corrupt.Standardized tests are increasingly unpopular, and not without reason. But when used properly they do, or at least should, serve important purposes. There are two main kinds of standardized tests: admissions and state assessment. Admissions tests like the SAT were built to predict academic performance in college and graduate school. Grades and transcripts also do this, but academic standards and programs differ so greatly from school to school and region to region that a central standard measure is extremely useful. State assessments help demonstrate whether students are graduating from high school with basic literacy and math skills. They exist because society, which pays for every child to have free K-12 education, has a right to know that kids are actually learning.To fill its only purpose (and to have a shot at being fair), a standardized test must yield totally consistent scores across adminis
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