Re: I just spoke to our 4th grade teacher

Posted by Nebraska Principal on 5/08/02

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I'm sorry that I didn't get back to you sooner. I don't come
to this board very often and just now saw your response.

We had a higher percentage of student fail the assessment this
year compared to last year. We do have a higher percentage of
special education students this year compared to last year, but
we also kept copies of all the written work submitted by the
students and we were very surprised at some of the scores
received by our higher ability students. I have a teacher in
my school who was a rater for the last two years and has
significant training in 6 traits writing. She felt that the
raters were much better trained this year than last year. That
may explain the tougher scoring. I have spoken to several
administrators who said that their scores were much lower this
year. I do know that it doesn't really do any good to compare
students to other students - the scores are derived from a
rubric; not comparison or rating in any specific order.

I hope that helps.


On 4/28/02, BlueJoan/NE wrote:
> I hadn't heard, yet. She informed me that 70&37; of the
students FAILED!!!!! Last year 100&37; passed!!! She was
> upset! She really felt they were judged way too low.... One
of her top students received the the same low mark as
> one of her lower achieving esl students.....
>
> What do YOU know about the assessments?>??? Your school
low??? high??? Would be interested in hearing any
> other info you might have!!!
>
> Thanks

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Statewide Writing Assessments, 4/23/02, by Nebraska Principal.
• Re: I just spoke to our 4th grade teacher, 4/28/02, by BlueJoan/NE.
• Re: I just spoke to our 4th grade teacher, 5/08/02, by Nebraska Principal.
• Re: I just spoke to our 4th grade teacher, 3/23/10, by Idea Man.

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