tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post2331753254640484510..comments2023-10-12T05:22:07.181-04:00Comments on The Prichard Blog!: First draft: Kentucky challenges and American challengesSPWestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08602329486466534720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-31773327973810903512009-03-04T20:58:00.000-05:002009-03-04T20:58:00.000-05:00Susan,I question your categorizing Kentucky’s writ...Susan,<BR/><BR/>I question your categorizing Kentucky’s writing performance as “in line with the nation.” <BR/><BR/>Eighth grade NAEP writing was last assessed in 2007. Kentucky’s scale score was statistically significantly below the national average. In fact, our scale score was only statistically significantly higher than 8 of the 45 participating states. If you look at the number of Kentucky students found Proficient or more on that same assessment, we only can claim a statistically significantly higher score than just 5 states – that’s all. <BR/><BR/>Furthermore, Kentucky excluded 6 percent of its entire raw NAEP sample on the 2007 eighth grade writing assessment due to learning disabilities. The national average exclusion rate was half of that. No state excluded a higher proportion of these kids. Many excluded only one or two percent of their raw sample due to learning disabilities. Because NAEP offers testing accommodations on this assessment, our nation-leading exclusion rate coupled with below national average performance is particularly troubling. <BR/><BR/>Fourth grade writing has not been assessed by the NAEP since 2002, so I won’t take time on it here.<BR/><BR/>In the interests of credibility, I strongly urge you to reclassify writing in your charts. The recent NAEP results don’t justify your current ranking.<BR/><BR/>I have more reservations, including your comments about racial gaps. Very briefly, those gaps are reduced here because our Whites perform notably lower than their peers elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>And, as always, I have to remind you that comparisons using NAEP are now very problematic due to different demographics, and different accommodation and exclusion rates. All the recent NAEP reports carry that warning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-25335346598000145502009-03-04T00:33:00.000-05:002009-03-04T00:33:00.000-05:00Let's see what I can do off the top of my head, le...Let's see what I can do off the top of my head, left column first.<BR/><BR/>Current NAEP scores support science, reading, writing, math, Poverty, disability, race. ACT provides confirmation on the race gap, reading and English and math.<BR/><BR/>Social studies and arts are my reasoned estimate in a world without data, which is why the (?) is included. We've tested science all these years while other states let it be displaced--and we have a lead as a result. My hunch is that if we had a comparison test we'd see the same thing in social studies and arts.<BR/><BR/>High school completion and college completion are from the Census ACS data, while college entrance is either from Mortenson Seminar or higheredinfo.org, and STEM is from the NCES digest.<BR/><BR/>Funding equity and technology are from Quality Counts, either this year or last. <BR/><BR/>Assessment is my judgment based on Quality Counts analysis plus lots of Ed Week reading, plus the testing summaries posted here on norm-referenced and constructed-response use nationwide.<BR/><BR/>Preschool is Census ACS. <BR/><BR/>Core Content is Quality Counts from memory, which in turn draws on AFT work.<BR/><BR/>Teacher prep is the new Teacher Quality report, which gives us a D+, putting 19 states below us and 16 above that grade. Professional development is partly from that, partly guesswork based on reading Ed Week for a long time.<BR/><BR/>P-12 funding adequacy is from Quality Counts and the NCES Digest.<BR/><BR/>College costs are from www.sheeo.org.<BR/><BR/>The Top 20 report (see link in the sidebar) has more than half of the data, and I"ve also blogged most of it in the last six weeks.SPWestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602329486466534720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-23838132425009585402009-03-04T00:17:00.000-05:002009-03-04T00:17:00.000-05:00Susan,Just out of curiosity, what research is this...Susan,<BR/><BR/>Just out of curiosity, what research is this based on?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-81564489137843251572009-03-03T14:46:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:46:00.000-05:00In the 'in line with the nation' strategies box I ...In the 'in line with the nation' strategies box I would include writing portfolios and use of open response test items as one of the reasons for our performance in writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com