From 1999 to 2013, California had a standard test (STAR – Student Testing And Reporting) to assess our students on California Standards in English Language Arts, Math, the Sciences, and Social Sciences. Within its first few years, the test format stabilized, and for the rest of its life, it remained essentially unchanged—regularly releasing a fraction of its items to educate the students and parents about the expectations from our students and offering stable longitudinally comparable scaled scores.
California Flies Blind On Testing
The Troubling Saga Of The State’s ‘Smarter Balanced Test’
Originally published on Hoover.org Tue. August 28, 2018
Williamson M. Evers is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Educational Excellence at the Independent Institute.
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Ze’ev Wurman (1950–2023) was a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, co-author of the Open Letter to Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework, Chief Software Architect with MonolithIC 3D Inc., and former senior policy adviser with the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education.
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