December 2012 Education Insider: Tracking Measures, Assessment Consortia, Student Surveys, and Multi‐State Advocacy Groups

Whiteboard Advisors:

In this month's Education Insider, insiders weigh in on the progress of the Common Core assesment consortia, the use of student surveys in teacher evaulations, and the state of education advocacy organizations. Highlights from the survey include:

Insiders continue to be skeptical of the Common Core assessment consortia--especially the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. In addition, 67% of Insiders think that the PARCC consortium will not succeed in establishing a common cut score across states on its assessments and 76% of Insiders believe the same thing about SBAC.

Insiders are not very familiar with the research about using student surveys as a component of teacher evaluation but see promise in the idea.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 26, 2012 1:51 AM
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