Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:54 am Post subject: No Child Left Behind Yet another Bush success story... |
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Another reason to distrust school rankings
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/dark_matter/story.html?id=e1e27a66-e445-4e56-ab20-699b6a625977&k=92418
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Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, June 16, 2006
Schools in Florida often suspend poor students to boost the school's overall test scores, a University of Florida study shows. Students with a record of lower math and reading scores on previous standardized tests were more likely to be suspended at test time and for longer periods than their higher performing classmates, said David Figlio, a UF economist whose study is published in the Journal of Public Economics.
�Introduction of high-stakes testing to improve school accountability has apparently led these schools to disproportionately punish low-performing students during the testing period to try to �game the system,�� Figlio said. Here's how it works: You know that little Brandon or Christopher can't read very well. You suspend him � not just for a day, but for a long period. That way he misses the exam, AND the make-up date.
Bingo, no one counts his score. Schools are concerned about test scores because they play a critical role in how much money they receive and in some cases determine whether teachers get bonuses, he said. Figlio analysed 41,803 suspensions of students at 504 elementary, middle and high schools in Florida from 1996 through 2000.
Students with the lowest predicted scores in reading and mathematics on the state-wide exams were suspended for an average of 2.35 days, with 23 per cent suspended for one week or longer. But the stronger students averaged 1.91-day suspensions for similar infractions, with 18 per cent kicked out for one week or more.
� Ottawa Citizen 2006 |
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