{"id":12271,"date":"2024-08-23T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12271"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:18:20","slug":"wisconsin-dpi-lowers-performance-goals-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12271","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin DPI Lowers Performance Goals for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/08\/23\/wisconsin-dpi-lowers-performance-goals-for-students\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wisconsin-dpi-lowers-performance-goals-for-students<\/a><\/p>\n

This happened a few months ago, but I missed it. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has lowered the performance levels for the Forward Exam<\/a> \u2013 the state standardized test that we use to measure the success or failure of our schools. Put another way, the Government Education Complex was frustrated with the fact that test scores have been flat or declining for years, so they decided to lower the standards to make it look better.<\/p>\n

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The bars for labeling the comparative success of kids have been lowered.<\/a>\u00a0Lowered to levels that are more constructive, reasonable and realistic? To levels that undermine efforts to set rigorous goals and improve the overall achievement of Wisconsin students? Different people would have different opinions.<\/p>\n

The bars \u2014 known as \u201ccut scores\u201d \u2014 mark the boundaries between one category of performance and the next higher or lower category on the tests. This fall, when information on state test results from last spring are released to the public, the percentages will rise, although by how much is not yet known.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They also changed the nomenclature to:<\/p>\n

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Advanced \u2013 The student demonstrates a thorough understanding of the
knowledge and skills described in the Wisconsin Academic Standards for their
grade level and is on-track for future learning.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Meeting \u2013 The student is meeting the knowledge and skill expectations described
in the Wisconsin Academic Standards for their grade level and is on-track for
future learning.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Approaching \u2013 The student is approaching the knowledge and skill expectations
described in the Wisconsin Academic Standards for their grade level needed to be
on-track for future learning.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Developing \u2013 The student is at the beginning stages of developing the knowledge
and skills described in the Wisconsin Academic Standards for their grade level
needed to be on-track for future learning<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It used to be Advanced, Proficient, Basic, and Below Basic.<\/p>\n

Look for the news stories when this year\u2019s test results are released. I expect to see educrats celebrating a \u201crise in scores,\u201d but remember that what actually happened is that we lowered the standards to appease crappy teachers.<\/p>\n

Our government education system has been failing and collapsing for decades. We are larding up the bureaucracy with administrators and cost while educational performance keeps falling. We are filling up the curriculum with useless information and social engineering while other countries are teaching their kids how to be successful in the 21st century. We are failing our kids and the government\u2019s response is to lower the standards and use different words to obfuscate their failures. Bad test scores are not an indictment of the kids. It is an indictment of the system and adults who are failing the kids.<\/p>\n

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