Level Testing

[hayfields@moscow.com]

Today my daughter took a 'leveling' test. The point of this test was to figure 
out where each student is, before giving them a standardized test. Apparently 
the purpose of this is to give each student a standardized test that will be at 
his or her level. There does not seem to be a correlation between the 
curriculum to be learned or any other factor.  What is the point of that?? 
Won't that just provide a bunch of scores showing that students are at the 
average level for the test they took? This will make the district look good I 
suppose. Apparently this is in response to the state mandated tests. So how 
does this help the district plan- nothing in the information I received about 
the leveling test stated that the kid would be placed in classes based upon the 
scores. Anybody out there have any input?

H.
Jordan

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