Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoringPosted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Texas, United States on 2011-08-09 04:10Z by Steven |
Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring
Houston Chronicle
2011-07-25
Jennifer Radcliffe
It will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately
Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday.
As it grapples with increasing diversity, Texas has opted not to measure the scores of the state’s 78,419 multiracial, non-Hispanic students as an ethnic subgroup whose performance matters in determining whether a school made “adequate yearly progress.”
Instead, they’ll join the ranks of the 180,000 Asian students lumped in with their schools’ entire student body for accountability purposes…
…Some scores moved
As Texas transitions to the new categories this year, state officials have opted to return some multiracial students’ scores to their previous category, if records indicate that the student was originally listed as white or African American. Their scores will only count in that previous category if they improve the school’s rating…
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