School Assessment Research Again

Searching for propaganda the other day, I found some interesting articles on my topic. Funny how I couldn’t find them before when I was doing the actual research for the paper -_-.

I found a MCS research, evaluation, and assessment site, with results on the TCAP and ACT tests. I checked the TCAP first, and the site provided me with a list of schools and their results.

For example, A.B. Hill school only scored 47% proficient in 2003, and has only increased to 51% since 2006. The next school on the list, Alcy, scored an 80% in 2003, but has dropped to 75% in 2006. I thought our schools were looking bad based off these first two results, but looking further down the list, we really aren’t doing so bad.

For example, Bruce went from a 46% to an 80%. Carnes went from a 37% to a 73%. Fairley Al. went from a 39% to an 80%. These are some pretty drastic changes in only 3 years. Maybe our schools are more on top of it than everyone thinks.

While it does look like most of the schools are doing increasingly better, there are still quite a few who are barely improving at all. This gives me some good information for both sides of the issue.

It was said in class Tuesday that a good argument brings up both sides of the spectrum, and this is definitely true. I will definitely use this for the ‘our schools are doing better than you think’ side.

Source: http://memphisdemo2.extranet.urbanplanet.com/sites/974cdc6f-b867-4129-8e23-506faae79343/uploads/Tbl_2_Grade_5__2003-04_to_2005-06__2-20-07_.pdf