Dora Taylor , parent activist in Seattle, wonders when the results from the SBAC tests will be released. The tests were given six months ago.
“Remember the Common Core SBAC test that was given to students in Seattle during the month of April and May, the test that was sooo important for students to take, the test that certain school administrators threatened, coerced and embarrassed students into taking, that SBAC test? Well, parents and students have yet to see the results of the test.
“So then the question is, why haven’t the results been published? Does OSPI or our superintendent hope we’ll forget about the test? That it will be just a vague and very bad memory when precious class time was lost and millions of dollars spent on a test that is of no value to teachers or their students? Even if and when we see the results, will it matter? Teachers, students and parents cannot see the questions or the answers.
“Is it because the results were so bad that a narrative is being created by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction OSPI/Bill Gates (Bill Gates has provided OSPI with $14M in grants since 2009)? We know that the Common Core Standards test results in other states were so low that parents began to question the test’s validity.”
How long does it take the computer to grade the tests?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Guess they are not using one of Bill Gate’s “super computers” to give a fast turn-around of student scores – the truth must be so obvious and odious that they are hoping for “mass amnesia” on the part of the public.
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And I love how the “reformers” sell these tests by saying they are necessary so parents can know how their kids are doing. It’s necessary for their teachers to know this information so they can address the needs of individual students.
They never explain how test results from six months ago can tell us how the kids are doing, or how such old scores, from back when the kids were in a different grade, can help teachers address their needs.
Or how these tests can really inform parents and teachers about what their kids needed six months ago, when the parents and teachers are forbidden from seeing the test questions the kids missed.
Or how these tests, which collectively cost billions of tax payer dollars, can give us more information about what the kids need than the quizzes I and other teachers write up for our classes for free, the results of which can be given to kids and their parents on the same day they are given.
And so many tax payers unquestionably accept these tests as something that is necessary.
More people need to wake up and stand up to this nonsense.
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I don’t think that parents have EVER seen their children’s results from the two years of CC testing done in Utah. Teachers have the information, and general trends and “failing” schools are breathlessly reported in the media, but I’m not sure that parents have ever seen it. Interesting, no?
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When I Google something I get hundreds of thousands to millions of responses in a split second. So how come it takes the PARCC and Smarter Balance computerized systems to get scores back in 6+ months.
In Denver I’m told the scores will be returned in February! You would think that parents, students, schools and communities could at least get what percentage of kids obtained what certain scores. Even if they have not decided where to place cut off scores were proficient or advanced etc. What they are doing is deciding what percentage of students will be put at non-proficient and failure rate.
It’s a political game and they are hoping that people will not be paying attention when scores come out. Very cynical and evil!
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Colorado will get the results around Thanksgiving, not that it makes any difference at that point.
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The tests are surely long since scored. Now the officials’ overlords have to decide where to place the cut line for “proficiency”.
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Tennessee will administer the “new” tests in the spring in all subjects except for Science. They will not be graded until June. I will hold my breath for that one. And, of course, teachers and parents will yet again be clueless as to how anything is scored. The powers that be in Nashville will not give the magic formula to anyone.
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Ahhh! The smell of spring sbac mathturbation* in the fall air!
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*thanks to SDP
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“The Scores are In”
The scores are in for twenty ten
Your kids have failed, but then again
They graduated years ago
Never mind, we’re slow, you know
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Seattle administration is not slow. Scared shitless.
“Send lawyers, guns, and money – the test have hit the fan.”
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Don’t hold your breath.
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