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Wyoming Test Scores Drop

August 7, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Like New York, Wyoming student test scores drop as well, and like New York it was “expected.”   The Casper Star-Tribune reports:

Statewide scores for elementary and middle school students in the Performance Assessment for Wyoming Students, or PAWS, this spring declined in every subject and every grade level from 2012 numbers, according to data released Wednesday by the Wyoming Department of Education.

The slump may be a result of the state’s ongoing transition from one set of learning standards to another, Wyoming Director of Assessment Deb Lindsey said.

“Knowing that every district is in a state of transition and, simultaneously, our assessments are in transition, it’s not surprising to me to see some declines,” Lindsey said. Wyoming asked its teachers to begin teaching to a national set of new learning goals called the Common Core State Standards in 2012. The 2013 PAWS test was the first standardized exam to incorporate test questions about the new standards.

“We know that implementation of new standards changes the practice of classroom teachers,” Lindsey said. “It takes time.”

Former Arizona state Sen. Richard Crandall, who started as Wyoming Department of Education director on Monday, said the results indicate there’s more work to be done to transition fully to the new Common Core standards, which administrators say are more challenging than Wyoming’s former content standards.

“The higher expectations that come with more rigorous standards will ultimately benefit all Wyoming students,” Crandall said in a department release.

Teachers were asked?  Try mandated to switch!

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Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Performance Assessment for Wyoming Students, Richard Crandall, Wyoming Department of Education

Comments

  1. drquantum says

    August 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm

    Well, naturally, scores will drop when teachers don’t know which test they’re teaching to. Pity they can’t just be held accountable to educate kids, rather than increase their test scores…

    • Dawnielle Penn says

      August 19, 2013 at 4:49 pm

      I totally agree. Sad.

  2. n2motherhood says

    August 8, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    While many are concerned about the tests and I know they are important…I’m concerned about the content of what is being taught…its Agenda 21 for our youth…global citizens in the making…if we don’t wake up and stop this movement, we will have a generation of indoctrinated citizens left to rule this world.

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