New Growth Model Brings Fairness to Schools
Good news! Colorado begins instituting the Growth Model today as a means of measuring student progress on CSAP. Hooray! Such student data will be much fairer to teachers and schools in determining whether they are making sufficient progress by measuring individual student’s achievement over time. In the past, each grade level’s progress was measured , not against its own achievement from the year before, but against the scores of the same grade level attained the year before. For instance, Grade 3 scores used to be compared to scores from last year’s Grade 3, etc. That simply was not good enough. How can you have high expectations for schools when the state defers to a system of measurement that doesn’t give a clear picture of actual progress made by individuals in a school? I am pleased to hear they will now be instituting the Growth Model and that the state is holding itself to a higher standard.
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This is very interesting….hmmmm….don’t the Waldorf schools do this already?