tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post3050886931030994898..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: K-PREP Percentiles Gives Public School Foes a New HammerRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-83659786299622242672012-11-08T14:28:56.892-05:002012-11-08T14:28:56.892-05:00I think the point which the first contributor is m...I think the point which the first contributor is making is that if you are going to rank schools there is going to be limited reliability in the GAP component. <br /><br />Assume you were comparing two schools each theoretically with 400 assessed students and one school had 75% free and reduced lunch and another had 25% free and reduced lunch. Further, if both schools have roughly equal numbers of non duplicated special education, LEP and minority, then one school's score is going to be based on the performance of 100 students where as another is going to have 300 as its representative group (basically most of the student body). Seems like schools with low GAP populations are having 1/3 of their score being based on a very small percentage of their total school population.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-26678027787181752392012-11-03T20:04:12.564-04:002012-11-03T20:04:12.564-04:00Why not create the same mixture of students in eac...Why not create the same mixture of students in each school? That way the mix,ability,minority,socioeconomic etc is the same percentage in each school. Then all schools should have the same score.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-61189186295138006572012-11-03T00:46:43.010-04:002012-11-03T00:46:43.010-04:00Gap score is a screwed up way of looking at a scho...Gap score is a screwed up way of looking at a school. The fewer at risk kids you the more disproportionate the percentage is in relationship to school effectiveness and the more inaccurate. How can you reasonably compare gap kids of Oldham County and Owsley County with the same weight in a collective school score? <br /><br />GAP is one of the most over hyped elements in education reform. From a racial point of view is blantant racist stereotyping. We are to assume that all hispanics, african americans and native americans are all automatically the same academically disadvantages? I know that is not a popular view point, but really, if you are raising both the lower and higher performers in any grouping from some GAP baseline do you honestly expect to accelerate ELL or special needs students to perform at the same level as your highest performing kids. Its ridiculous both in practice and theory to lump kids into these identified pools instead of simply dealing with them as individuals. Why don't we look at single parent families or student households with less HS education or less as at risk groups? It just political cherry picking. Wasn't that long ago that KDE only recognized african americans as the only at risk minority. <br /><br />Just teach all kids well and quit creating these artificial comparisonsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com