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In case you were listening to me on the radio with @leoniehaimson here are links to things I mentioned.
The Standards for Educational testing, some of which the #SHSAT violates.
New York Performance Standards Consortium | NYC schools that skip standardized tests have higher graduation rates hechingerreport.org/nyc-schools-th…
N.Y. state tests suspended for remainder of school year wkbw.com/news/coronavir…
TIL: The pineapple kerfuffle in NYC was broken by Leonie | Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps ... everyone!   nydailynews.com/new-york/talki…
New York seems to be holding on to the regents because of ... | As high school exit exams fall out of favor in Washington and New Jersey, New York is increasingly an outlier chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/…
This is from the RFP for the new #SHSAT contract... apparently every year Pearson writes 18 different test forms... so 1800 questions in a year!?

Given their track record of bad tests this is suspicious
Y'all . . . Y'all! ... This is why we need the #SHSAT technical report... this report from 2006 still hasn't been fully answered or disproven.

Why would you trust a test that the results could simply be based on did you get the "easy" form of the test?
Also the National Research Council says some interesting stuff
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