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Testing Inconsistencies

6/25/2014

 
This is not so much of a testing story but it does tell of inconsistencies...I attended the ELA common core training last summer. We were told not use "base" word and "root" word interchangeably. All year long I made a point to use "base" word instead of "root" word and my students knew to say "base" word. On the online tcap practice test, one of the questions asked for the "root" word of flies. Fly is the "base" word, not a "root" word. Makes you wonder how many other inconsistencies/mistakes there are on the real test.
- A third grade teacher in Tennessee


Do we know if this happened for sure on the TCAP?  Do we know if students truly mastered the base/root word concept?  Do we know how many students got base/root word questions wrong on the real TCAP because of this inconsistency?  We will never know.  The TCAP test is top-secret.  Teachers can't see it.  Parents can't see it.  Administrators can't see it.  Taxpayers can't see it, even though we paid the Pearson corporation handsomely for it.

Our children deserve better than this.  Tennessee needs testing transparency.

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