Who comes up with these names? Dynamic Learning Maps? Really? When the U.S. Department of Education wants Delaware to implement changes, it is up to the Delaware Department of Education to come up with how they do it. What does Delaware do? They join a consortium with taxpayer dollars. We now have the latest from the DOE, Dynamic Learning Maps. What are they?
On August 18th, the Delaware State Board of Education held a work session before their regular meeting. At this session was Jon Cohen, the Vice-President of American Institutes for Research and Tony Alpert, the Executive Director of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
Question… if the test is computer adaptive for each student, then not every student receives the same test. So how could there possibly ever be mean scores involved with a test that is never the same? Is that why Delaware Governor Jack Markell called this the best test ever made at a New America conference last year? Here is the presentation:
That was the presentation. As you can see, our stalwart State Board of Education took very detail minutes of the work session…
Meanwhile, the Delaware DOE had a meeting with all the district test coordinators on 8/29/16.
Can someone please tell me how Component V from the DPAS-II teacher evaluation system is listed as a “Test Security Incident” for Smarter Balanced? That seems kind of odd in my opinion. In the below document, it states the Smarter Balanced Assessment went under a peer review as required by ESEA. But who was this peer review submitted to? They talk about “CFA consultants” in the document. Upon searching for “cfa”, I believe this means “confirmatory factor analysis” based on this document. Or is that the name of the company doing this “peer review”? I hope it isn’t like Florida’s peer review that was making everyone ask “Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?”
If this report was due in August, how come we have yet to see a copy of this federally required peer review? Sounds like a future FOIA!
The Season Of Myths 