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To: epicure who wrote (95183)	11/10/2008 3:46:41 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541778

Mme, re: And the sophomores who went down, went down because of drug and alcohol use. I could see it happening during the year. I'm not sure that's something I want to be penalized for." I'm not saying that it would be a perfect measure of teacher effectiveness, I'm only suggesting that it would be the foundation for a useful metric that could be the most effective assessment tool available to us. You could adjust for historical norms that might show anticipated drops at the sophomore level where kids begin to hit the alcohol and drug years more heavily. I'm wondering, in terms of which kind of student you could connect to most readily, did you find any pattern among the kids whose scores improved over their longer term testing history and those whose scores did not? I ask because I suspect that an intelligent micro analysis of standardized testing scores can tell us a much about the teacher as it can about the students. Ed