tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post951856984911306900..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: Fact-checking the checkers on miraculous CPS test score bumpMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-28715802214520653052017-11-17T09:18:39.526-06:002017-11-17T09:18:39.526-06:00Excellent commentary, spot on!
I'm always ama...Excellent commentary, spot on!<br /><br />I'm always amazed that so many people buy into such bad "research" and thinking in general. Ay, ay ay! Thanks for pointing out the "problems". And that's putting it nicely as those problems are more like fatal diseases that infect and spread across the body politic wiping out rationo-logical thought replacing it with ideologies based on chimerical thinking.<br /><br />For another take down of supposed research (from Down Under) see: https://visablelearning.blogspot.com.au/ <br /><br />"Neither do I accept the idea that student learning can be accurately or usefully measured by high-stakes standardized testing."<br /><br />"Testucation" is what eminent Australian educator Phil Cullen calls the malpractices that currently infect their (and our) schools. And those malpractices are based on the false belief that the teaching and learning process can be "measured". . .<br /><br />. . . The TESTS MEASURE NOTHING, quite literally when you realize what is actually happening with them. Richard Phelps, a staunch standardized test proponent (he has written at least two books defending the standardized testing malpractices) in the introduction to “Correcting Fallacies About Educational and Psychological Testing” unwittingly lets the cat out of the bag with this statement:<br /><br />“Physical tests, such as those conducted by engineers, can be standardized, of course [why of course of course], but in this volume , we focus on the measurement of latent (i.e., nonobservable) mental, and not physical, traits.” [my addition]<br /><br />Notice how he is trying to assert by proximity that educational standardized testing and the testing done by engineers are basically the same, in other words a “truly scientific endeavor”. The same by proximity is not a good rhetorical/debating technique.<br /><br />Since there is no agreement on a standard unit of learning, there is no exemplar of that standard unit and there is no measuring device calibrated against said non-existent standard unit, how is it possible to “measure the nonobservable”?<br /><br />THE TESTS MEASURE NOTHING for how is it possible to “measure” the nonobservable with a non-existing measuring device that is not calibrated against a non-existing standard unit of learning?????<br /><br />PURE LOGICAL INSANITY!<br />Duane Swackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862054631331567527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-17565883461126698682017-11-15T14:51:04.804-06:002017-11-15T14:51:04.804-06:00Growth? The researchers didn't even know if th...Growth? The researchers didn't even know if the testing companies were testing the same kids year-to-year. Opt-Outernoreply@blogger.com