Gold recognised the need for fair tests of these potential treatments to minimise the risk of bias from knowing whether a patient was in the “treatment” or the “control” group, with concerns that patient’s “psychic reactions” could overestimate the effect of the therapy. 3/8
#FairTest

Missouri IADA: Monitoring Implementation, Ensuring Educational Benefits - Fairtest Missouri was granted flexibility to develop an innovative assessment system under the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program by the Trump Administration. The proposal pilots new assessments in Math and ELA in 4th and 5th grade with the goal of scaling systemwide to more useful assessments that are able to capture student competencies and allow

Missouri joins the IADA program to pilot a new assessment system. Will it improve on the current model? What should stakeholders ask during design and implementation? Read the FairTest report.

https://ow.ly/x09S50Y4Zx2

#Education #Assessment #EdPolicy #IADA #FairTest

Missouri IADA: Monitoring Implementation, Ensuring Educational Benefits - Fairtest Missouri was granted flexibility to develop an innovative assessment system under the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program by the Trump Administration. The proposal pilots new assessments in Math and ELA in 4th and 5th grade with the goal of scaling systemwide to more useful assessments that are able to capture student competencies and allow

Missouri joins the IADA program to pilot a new assessment system. Will it improve on the current model? What should stakeholders ask during design and implementation? Read the FairTest report.

https://ow.ly/x09S50Y4Zx2

#Education #Assessment #EdPolicy #IADA #FairTest

The SAT has surged in popularity. The ACT is making changes. While elite colleges and students reconsidered the value of the tests and the SAT gained consumers, the ACT made changes over the past two years to claw back market share.

ACT making changes to combat market share loss to SAT. Race to the bottom for entities worried about profit and marketing, not education. FairTest comments on the problems in the testing market. Keep antitrust law alive! #ACTvsSAT #StandardizedTesting #FairTest
https://ow.ly/KXXr50Y0LQ1

The SAT has surged in popularity. The ACT is making changes. While elite colleges and students reconsidered the value of the tests and the SAT gained consumers, the ACT made changes over the past two years to claw back market share.

ACT making changes to combat market share loss to SAT. Race to the bottom for entities worried about profit and marketing, not education. FairTest comments on the problems in the testing market. Keep antitrust law alive! #ACTvsSAT #StandardizedTesting #FairTest
https://ow.ly/KXXr50Y0LQ1

More High Schools Look Beyond Exit Exams As high schools rethink graduation requirements, a growing number are moving away from requiring all students to pass a comprehensive test.

A look at why states have been abandoning exit exams and rethinking graduation requirements to meet a complex world. The discussion of what should replace MCAS in MA figures prominently. Fairtest weighs in. #GraduationRequirements #MCAS #ExitExams #FairTest
https://ow.ly/LxOV50XLwqa

More High Schools Look Beyond Exit Exams As high schools rethink graduation requirements, a growing number are moving away from requiring all students to pass a comprehensive test.

A look at why states have been abandoning exit exams and rethinking graduation requirements to meet a complex world. The discussion of what should replace MCAS in MA figures prominently. Fairtest weighs in. #GraduationRequirements #MCAS #ExitExams #FairTest
https://ow.ly/LxOV50XLwqa

Debate Over Improving Public Schools Is Dividing Democrats Some Democrats are using tough rhetoric about public-school performance, signaling an emerging divide within the party over K-12 education.

fairtest.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?... 🔥 #Neoliberal / #Corporate #Democrats RUINED #publiceducation by their #bipartisan disaster originally known as #NCLB.

They then, as is what they always do, learned thing with the #ESSAReautheeizaon in the 20teens.

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Tested to destruction: how an obsession with exams is failing our children | The Observer How do we reform a system that works for some but writes off so many others? Investing in early childhood would be a good start

fairtest.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?... #Fairtest Perspective from the UK on #StandardizedChildAbuse #edusky

#TrialsTuesday #7. Today, I’ll take you more than 100 years further back in time than my trial of scurvy. I’ll share with you a proposal for a study that highlighted the need for fair tests when a common treatment might do more harm than good #FairTest #TestingTreatments 1/8

He recognised the need for fair tests of these potential treatments to minimise the risk of bias from knowing whether a patient was in the “treatment” or the “control” group, with concerns that patient’s “psychic reactions” could overestimate the effect of the therapy 3/8 #FairTest

Despite the promise from previous, poorly controlled trials, after following these patients for several months, this fair test of the treatment failed to find any evidence of beneficial effects for sanocrysin (www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/les...) 5/8 #FairTest

🤑 Hey, teachers!!! Spring, 2024 #StandardizedTesting (i.e. #StandardizedChildAbuse) time is almost here!!! Time to get out the whip and REALLY put your little #datapackages ' noses to the grindstone!!! #Edusky #Fairtest #NEA #AFT #teachersky

🤑 Hey, teachers!!! Spring, 2024 #StandardizedTesting (i.e. #StandardizedChildAbuse) time is almost here!!! Time to get out the whip and REALLY put your little #datapackages ' noses to the grindstone!!! #Edusky #Fairtest #NEA #AFT #teachersky

🤑 Hey, teachers!!! Spring, 2024 #StandardizedTesting (i.e. #StandardizedChildAbuse) time is almost here!!! Time to get out the whip and REALLY put your little #datapackages ' noses to the grindstone!!! #Edusky #Fairtest #NEA #AFT

FairTest Home - Fairtest FairTest advocates against the misuse and overuse of standardized tests in education and for more effective and beneficial ways of assessing students and schools.

FairTest works to end the misuses and flaws of #standardizedtesting and to ensure that evaluation of students, #teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. #StandardizedTeacherSbuse #StandardizedChildAbuse #FairTest fairtest.org #edusky #Edusky

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New Report: Massachusetts High School Exit Exam Is Harmful and Ineffective - Fairtest “Thrive Act” Before State Legislature Would Remove High-Stakes Consequences For further information contact: Harry Feder, FairTest, harry@fairtest.org, 917-273-8939 Lisa Guisbond, Citizens for Public ...

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#FairTest #StandardizedTesting news nationally and from individual states. #Edusky

FairTest Home - Fairtest FairTest advocates against the misuse and overuse of standardized tests in education and for more effective and beneficial ways of assessing students and schools.

A MUST - free emailed newsletter! I taught for 30 years before retiring; not in any way affiliated: #FairTest works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial." #Edusky

High stakes: Teaching to the tests in K-12 - Ethical Schools We continue our conversation with Harry Feder of FairTest. This time, we discuss high stakes tests in K-12 schools. Harry explains how tests and the prep for them came to dominate education and the co...

We continue our conversation with Harry Feder of FairTest. This time, we discuss high stakes tests in K-12 schools. (1/3)

#k12 #edchat #education #highschool #middleschool #teaching #school #fairtest

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