Your editorial piece of December 30, 2023 carried the headline, “The hazards of standardized tests.” The source, The Dominion Post from Morgantown, West Virginia, carried this prescient warning: “When our schools are judged solely on standardized test results and teachers are forced to teach to the test, we fail our children.”
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A plunge in the number of students participating in standardized tests during COVID-19 is complicating the state’s ability to gauge how well its schools are doing on student achievement.
With some students performing below their actual grade level, Garfield Re-2 School District leaders spent Monday’s board meeting asking themselves how they can improve the district’s quality of education.
Figures provided by Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Julie Knowles show a portion of students kindergarten through eighth grade are either deficient in math or reading.
Winter student achievement figures specifically show 66% of students who are performing at one, two or three grades below their actual grade in reading standards, with the remaining percentage of those students operating at or above their grade level. For math, 76% of the Re-2 student body in K-8 is deficient.