Officials say plummeting scores may affect more than individual students as federal benchmarks loom this spring.
Parents, students and the community may be startled by plummeting MEAP (Michigan Education Assessment Program) results, but Farmington Public Schools officials have seen this train coming. Officials were told last year that the Michigan Dept. of Education (DOE) would raise "cut" scores – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects. As a result, students who were judge "proficient" in 2011 are now "partially proficient", and more students are ranking "not proficient". "I think the main goal of the state doing this right now," said Kristin Gekiere, the district's director of assessment and school improvement, "is they want the students to…
42.465783
-83.369608
Farmington Public Schools Lewis Schulman Administrative Center
32500 Shiawassee Rd, Farmington, MI
/articles/farmington-schools-anticipated-drop-in-meap-scores
706531
/locations/6388535
The district is looking at 'a different way of teaching' in light of tougher passing requirements on statewide tests.
A look at how Farmington Public Schools students would perform under new "cut", or passing, scores on standardized tests have officials looking at different ways to teach a new generation of learners. Kristin Gekiere, the district's director of assessment and school improvement, said Michigan is only the third state in the country to move to more rigorous scoring, which was approved by the state School Board in September. The cut scores – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects - require students to get roughly 65 percent of the answers correct to “pass” the state test, instead of only 39 percent, which was the previous benchmark. …
42.465783
-83.369608
Farmington Public Schools Lewis Schulman Administrative Center
32500 Shiawassee Rd, Farmington, MI
/articles/farmington-school-officials-take-a-hard-look-at-new-standards
706531
/locations/5834759
David Anderson
1:14 pm on Friday, November 18, 2011
I wonder why FPS thought 39% was "ok" and left things alone. Why does it feel as though the district is reactive? Why wasn't this assessment of our teaching methods done before? Ask me what I want from the BOE, the district, the administration?? I want all of the students to have an opportunity to learn, even excel, but certinaly to pass. '... the MEAP and MME assessments, as well as ACT scores, … more ›