Friday, March 21, 2008

Audit: CATS test writing scores inflated, critics want test dumped or altered

Here's Mark Hebert's story on the audit of writing portfolios from Wednesday:

(WHAS11) - An audit of last year’s CATS test has found that nearly half the student’s scores on the writing portfolios were inflated. Critics of the CATS test say that’s proof that the whole test needs to be dumped or at the very least, the writing portfolios need to go. But some teachers say that would be a bad idea...

...A state senate bill that would abolish the CATS test has virtually no chance of passing the house and would face a veto by Governor Beshear if it ever got to his desk.

Video here.

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