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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Celebrating ISAT scores? « Fred Klonsky

Celebrating ISAT scores? « Fred Klonsky:

Celebrating ISAT scores?

Our students always do well on the annual state ISAT exams, a week long battery of tests for third, fourth and fifth graders.

This year 100% of our fourth graders met or exceeded grade level expectations on the reading portion.

As a staff, nobody gets overly excited by this. We expect that our scores go up some years and down others. We are a small school, so the difference between 90% meeting or exceeding and 100% meeting or exceeding is a couple of students.

And I’m not about to go into an entire critique of the state test and how it should be used and not used. Not now,