Portfolio testing is still a state test, it is still connected to NCLB/school funding/ accountability. Virginia has this style of testing only currently used with middle school LEP (ESL) students and some kids with IEPs (Excep Ed). It requires a huge amount of work for the teacher to collect and demonstrate evidence per standard and put into individual binders. A teacher in high school will have 4-6 classes of up to 30 students. Each standard is demonstrated individually, for example one standard asks to infer information, the other to imply information, the teacher must collect evidence that the student did this verb stated in the standard. Highlight the individual piece of work, sticker the work denoting the standard indicated. The binders are graded subjectively by committees, not the teacher. The testing situation will continue to be as crazy ++++ because the schools will still be under the gun to demonstrate gains, but with a portfolio it becomes a subjective decision. Do your kids want this portfolio when they can easily pass? Because, as it is, your kids will pass the standardized tests without issue, statistically children of academically literate parents pass at close to 100%. Your issue is not how you can opt YOUR kids out(-because you can-you can move- fake addresses-charter school- etc). ..it is how accountability connected to money is strangling schools-lower income schools specifically. Yet at the same time we must still hold the educational system accountable ..how? that is, if equity really is the issue here in this group.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:33:56 +0000
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