Assessing the Role of K-12 Academic Standards in States Workshop Summary (2008) / Chapter Skim
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4 Wrap-Up and Next Steps
4 Wrap-Up and Next Steps
Pages 33-36
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• The variation in proficiency standards highlights the limitations of a model that focuses on achievement to a particular defined level. Many argue that a growth model (an assessment system that focuses on measuring students' academic growth over time)
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• Both teacher quality and focused textbook content are very sig nificant factors that would not be directly addressed by more uni form standards. Without them, no real improvement is likely.
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There seemed to be wide agreement that standards are now an accepted part of the educational landscape and that they play multiple roles in public education. Moreover, standards are seen as very important -- and the need to improve them is seen as c ritical -- because they are viewed as a means of achieving educational equity.
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Others viewed the variation as an absolutely critical obstacle to the equality of opportunity that is a key goal of standards-based reform efforts. In some ways, assessments and proficiency scores have come to stand in for academic content standards, but few see this as a positive development.
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