{"id":206,"date":"2008-05-28T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-05-28T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T11:45:39","slug":"ironic-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Ironic, Isn&#8217;t It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Consortium on Chicago School Research from the University of Chicago, a report that extensive test prep actually lowered student scores on the ACT.  The report&#8211;<font class=\"page_title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ccsr.uchicago.edu\/content\/publications.php?pub_id=124\">From High School to the Future: ACT Preparation<\/a>&#8211;Too Much, Too Late<\/font><strong>&#8212;<\/strong>found<strong>:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> \tLow ACT scores reflect poor alignment of standards from K-8 to high school and from high school to college.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> \tTest strategies and item practice are not effective mechanisms for improving students\u2019 ACT scores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> \tACT performance is directly related to students\u2019 work in their courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Incorporating the ACT into high school accountability is not an effective strategy for high school reform by itself, without accompanying strategies to work on instructional practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They concluded that students are trying to cram in study for the ACT when the best preparation takes years of college-prep study and work.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the researchers would probably not want to generalize to other types of tests, but I can&#8217;t help but wonder how this might apply to high-stakes testing in general.\u00a0 I have a feeling sometimes that school has become just one big test prep program, with students and teachers spending each year cramming for the test, then beginning anew each September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Consortium on Chicago School Research from the University of Chicago, a report that extensive test prep actually lowered student scores on the ACT. The report&#8211;From High School to the Future: ACT Preparation&#8211;Too Much, Too Late&#8212;found: Low ACT scores reflect poor alignment of standards from K-8 to high school and from high school to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ironic, Isn&#8217;t It?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-testing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-3k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}