FEATURE/Lightspan News Factoid: Assessing Student Achievement
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--July 27, 2000--There's hot debate over the most effective way to evaluate and assess student achievement.
With the stakes so high, many of those impacted are facing enormous consequences if students don't pass the "high-stakes" standardized tests required by most states. So what's really at stake?
-- Educators' job accountability -- Last month, Delaware became one
of the first states to link educators' job performance evaluations
to their students' test scores by instituting an evaluation system
that counts students' scores on state and local assessments for
20 percent of the performance reviews given to teachers and
administrators.
-- Social promotion is out and test scores are in. More than 13,000
students in the Los Angeles Unified School District faced being
held back this year due to low test scores. Twenty states now
require students to pass a test to earn a diploma. That number
will increase to 28 states within the next three years.
These issues impact student dropout rates, unemployment rates and education funding. If you are interested, the experts at Lightspan Inc. can provide you with knowledgeable contacts and information related to this topic.
Lightspan Inc., a provider of curriculum-based educational software and Internet resources used in schools and homes, offers standards-based programs that help schools solve the challenge of effectively evaluating and assessing student progress to help increase student achievement.
If you would like to receive longitudinal achievement results from schools in your region that use Lightspan programs, or to receive information and resources related to this topic, contact Anita Paul, Public Relations Manager, at 858/824-8506, apaul@lightspan.com. |
