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Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 15, 2014 6:21:50 GMT -5
NYSED released aggregated results from the 2014 Common Core Assessments. In every building (3-8) the ELA* results were DOWN from the 2013 results, which were horrible. | Building | 2013 Proficient | 2014 Proficient | % Change 2013-2014 | | Mandalay | 68.24% | 61.16% | -7.06% | | Wantagh El | 65.32% | 50.87% | -14.45% | | Forest L | 54.46% | 45.54% | -8.91% | | Wantagh MS | 46.78% | 39.42% | -7.36% |
* English Language Arts This is disgusting!
Kudos to NYSED for obfuscating their data and making me work extra hard to get to the bottom line on this continuing debacle. Total Wantagh students in report: 1,011 Number "Proficient" in 2014.............443 Total ELA Proficiency Percent.......44%This report is a matched tracking report, meaning, it is reporting on the matched results of the same exact same students who took the assessments in 2014, comparing their results with their own results from 2013. It therefore eliminates any potential skew which may have resulted from opting-out. Heads should roll! (They won't.) Incredulous, Chris Wendt |
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 18, 2014 9:26:33 GMT -5
Ignoring this disastrous result is foolhardy. Pigeon-holing it into the slot marked "poor implementation" would be foolish. Accepting it, more foolish still. Opting out, a meaningless gesture, and here's why.
Our teachers are teaching the ELA Common Core Curriculum, to the ELA Common Core Assessments. YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT LEARNING PROFICIENTLY IN THIS VITAL CONTENT AREA!
It is not sufficient to say the Assessments are bad. How do you know that to be so?
It is not enough to say the Common Core ELA Curriculum is bad...because the Common Core ELA Curriculum is WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT and tested on! THERE IS NO OPTIONAL ELA CURRICULUM for YOUR CHILD TO LEARN in public school.
Parents and teachers need to get even more involved in getting this disaster straightened out, in Wantagh, in NY State.
44% ELA proficiency across all Elementary and Middle Schools in Wantagh for 2013-14! WHAT A WASTE OF TIME, ENGERGY & MONEY!
Chris Wendt
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Post by rr on Aug 18, 2014 14:22:14 GMT -5
it is disgusting...I think we should just make it easier for the kids so that the #'s go up and we all feel good.
Kidding obviously - and I'm going to try not to let this subject dominate the narrative for me this year.
Curious though, Chris, do you have these #'s broken down by grade level? Also, I have to think that opt-outs played a some role in these #'s.
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 18, 2014 21:49:58 GMT -5
You may be able to get the grade level data with some work, and it may be even easier soon, if NYSED publishes the data differently, as they have done in the past. Wantagh had a fairly low opt-out rate, and opt-outs are not included in the data presented, obviously. By comparison to Roosevelt, Roosevelt's key ELA result improved from 0% to 4% for the 2014 8th grade class, and Roosevelt had almost no opting-out. As a matter of fact, Roosevelt may have had no conscientious opt-outs, and the small number of non-test takers could all have been due to legitimate illnesses. Assigning some factor for the crappy Wantagh ELA results to opt-outs would not account for, or jive with, the fact that Wantagh's Math scores improved somewhat.
We have moved beyond poor implementation and are now in the world of poor curriculum, or poor teaching, or invalid assessments. Or maybe Education Secretary Arne Duncan was right about those suburban mom's opinions of their children's intelligence being...inflated, after all is said and done?
This really stinks! Whatever it is!
Chris Wendt
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 19, 2014 5:34:41 GMT -5
I forgot the most important reason why opt-outs were not a factor in the results reported, above. Kids who opted-out in 2014, their individual scores from 2013 were suppressed in the percentage comparison. So the correct way of understanding the results is this...the ELA scores of Wantagh students who were tested on 2014 declined compared to their own scores in 2013. The resulting ELA proficiency for those Wantagh students who were tested in both 2013 and 2014 was a solidly crappy 44%.
Chris Wendt
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 25, 2014 5:51:09 GMT -5
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