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Download full textPhelps, Richard P. – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has released a report, "Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments," ostensibly an evaluative comparison of four testing programs, the Common Core derived SBAC and PARCC, ACT's Aspire, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' MCAS. Of course, anyone familiar with Fordham's past work…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Tests, Evaluation Research, Standardized Tests
Stotsky, Sandra – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
In this testimony, the author first describes her qualifications, as well as the lack of relevant qualifications in Common Core's standards writers and in most of the members of Common Core's Validation Committee, on which she served in 2009-2010. The author then details some of the many problems in the 2011 Massachusetts ELA standards, written by…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Standardized Tests, Language Arts, English Instruction
