Attention Parents and Citizens of this once great Nation / Please pay attention to this and Fight Against Common Core!!! He specifically addressed the SBAC pilot of 500,000 student February 20 through May 24, 2013. They were submitted to experimental tests without informed consent by the children’s parents. They should have been warned that there are potential consequences of testing. There is a pilot test in Wisconsin in March 18-June 6, 2014. Based on statements by Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Dr. Thompson said, “This [Wisconsin pilot] will closely resemble the summative assessment that will be taken in 2015. The final test will never be piloted.” In his professional opinion, we need stop common core. In his opinion as a psychologist and a father, parents should not allow their children to take the test. For the record, Dr. Thompson said he votes Democrat. His clinic specializes in facilitating the educational attainment of at risk population groups. Here is his written synopsis of his testimony: 1. Despite misleading reports from State Superintendents from Utah and Wisconsin regarding how well Core Tests have been “pilot tested”, it was indisputable that the FINAL version of the Core test (complete with its most experimental component of “adaptability”) would never be properly tested, evaluated and “tweaked” in a transparent manner by independent experts prior to our children taking the tests in 2014-2015. 2. With that fact in mind, the only reasonable conclusion was that our children were being used as research guinea pigs under the direction and approval of our respective State Superintendents. (See Dr. Thompson and Attorney Ed Flint’s Letter To Utah Superintendent of Schools Dr. Martell Menlove) 3. We have over 50 years of peer reviewed data showing psychology’s struggles of measuring “achievement” as well as cognitive potential (I.Q.) of African American, Latino, ADHD, Autistic, Dual Exceptional, and children diagnosed with specific learning disabilities. The SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium), the group that the federal government paid hundreds of millions of dollars to facilitate the production of these tests, proudly proclaimed on their web pages that they have basically solved this problem. My exact words were, “SBAC has just announced to the world that they have created the ‘Holy Grail’ of Achievement Tests.” That feat is kind of hard to perform if no validation studies have been performed. 4. I compared and contrasted the extreme difference between the ways children were tested/evaluated in the private clinical psychology sector, versus the current way proposed by the U.S. Department of Education via the SBAC. Professionals in clinical psychology have learned through a 100-year history of well-documented testing abuse in America to put into place restraints to ensure the safety of our children. Common Core testing policies arrogantly ignored each and every one of these. 5. We need to stop our obsessive focus on measuring WHAT our children havel earned and focus on utilizing neuropsychology technologies available that can now measure with great accuracy HOW a child’s brain processes information (PASS Theory, Naglieri, 2008). 6. Professional recommendation: Stop Common Core testing. 7. Recommendation as a father: Don’t let your kids take the test.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:18:42 +0000
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