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To: Rambi who wrote (52337)	10/25/2000 7:44:48 PM
From: donjuan_demarco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Paranoid Schizophrenia Suits You" "Also, is it really a good thing for Rand that the Democrats are picking and choosing the numbers they want to use to discredit Bush from the non-reviewed piece, and ignoring the still positive results that are apparently also mentioned in it?" Honestly, no one is out to get you. BOOO!!!! Gotcha, didn't I?

To: Rambi who wrote (52337)	10/26/2000 2:29:10 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769667

I'm sorry for the miscitation. Try rand.org This is an interesting question. Without saying so, the new report shows that there is a high probability that that the TAAS is methodologically flawed. It is sort of a Heisenberg indeterminacy problem -- if a test is ignored, it may be trusted; if it has consequences, it is probably cooked. The main flaw, in my opinion, is that teachers not only administer the test to their own students (unlike the NAEP) but through their control of teaching content can drill their students on last year's tests which are publicly available. The comparison between RAND's test results and same school TAAS show some strange outcomes. Low SES schools show similar improvement with higher SES schools. Almost totally unheard of in educational research. Improvement is much lower on NAEP tests of Texas schools than on TAAS tests. Very interesting. Sort of like finding a trout in the milk. Is it more likely that Texas teachers taught to the test or that Texas students improved more than anyone else. Testing is very much like drugs. Should only be administered by experts.