Test Consortium PARCC finally admits snooping on kids
March 21, 2015
PARCC, which stands for Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, has come out with a statement on their spying, or as they say, “monitoring” policy.
Education researcher and writer, Mercedes Schneider, has commented on PARCC’s statement. Read her comments….
We also know that SBAC, the other testing consortium, also recommends spying on students’ social media. (SBAC is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.) Washington State is a member of the SBAC.
Here are just a few concerns, and you can probably come up with many more:
If students are posting about the assessments on social media, even if they don’t reveal any test questions or answers, they are presumed guilty. Does this “infraction” go on the student’s permanent record?
Many testing companies release their test items after using them for the public to see. Do PARCC and SBAC plan to do this, and if so, will they hold back some of their more intrusive questions?
The people at Pearson, PARCC, and SBAC are being paid with our tax dollars; they are supposed to be delivering us a service, not controlling and spying on our children. How did they become our overseers?
Opting out is looking better and better.
PARCC, which stands for Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, has come out with a statement on their spying, or as they say, “monitoring” policy.
Education researcher and writer, Mercedes Schneider, has commented on PARCC’s statement. Read her comments….
We also know that SBAC, the other testing consortium, also recommends spying on students’ social media. (SBAC is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.) Washington State is a member of the SBAC.
Here are just a few concerns, and you can probably come up with many more:
If students are posting about the assessments on social media, even if they don’t reveal any test questions or answers, they are presumed guilty. Does this “infraction” go on the student’s permanent record?
Many testing companies release their test items after using them for the public to see. Do PARCC and SBAC plan to do this, and if so, will they hold back some of their more intrusive questions?
The people at Pearson, PARCC, and SBAC are being paid with our tax dollars; they are supposed to be delivering us a service, not controlling and spying on our children. How did they become our overseers?
Opting out is looking better and better.