Message: RE: Quick follow-up question

RE: Quick follow-up question
FromPotter, SarahDate  Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:45 PM
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Taketa, Kristen
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SubjectRE: Quick follow-up question

Here is the Commissioner’s statement.

 

Sarah

 

Sarah Potter, APR | Communications Coordinator | 573‐751‐3469 | dese.mo.gov

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From: Kristen Taketa [mailto:KTaketa@post-dispatch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:34 PM
To: Potter, Sarah
Subject: RE: Quick follow-up question

 

Thanks Sarah. Apologies again for being late today.

 

From: Potter, Sarah [mailto:sarah.potter@dese.mo.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 4:57 PM
To: Kristen Taketa
Subject: RE: Quick follow-up question

 

For 2017 -

English II:  64842

Algebra I: 64852

 

 

Sarah Potter, APR | Communications Coordinator | 573‐751‐3469 | dese.mo.gov

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From: Kristen Taketa [mailto:KTaketa@post-dispatch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 4:39 PM
To: Potter, Sarah
Subject: RE: Quick follow-up question

 

Also, how many students took the English II and Algebra I EOCs this year?

 

From: Kristen Taketa
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 4:35 PM
To: 'Potter, Sarah'
Subject: Quick follow-up question

 

Hi Sarah,

 

Is DESE calling into question the comparability of results only from 2017 and 2016, or is the comparability now in question for more years back?

 

Thanks, Kristen


August 30, 2017 Script for Media for 2017 EOC News Each year the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education administers the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests to students in our Missouri traditional and charter public schools. This includes grade-level tests in English language arts and mathematics in grades 3-8, science in grades 5 and 8, and up to nine End-of-Course tests in high school. Statewide results for the grade-level tests were released earlier this month. At that time, we indicated that End-of-Course tests were undergoing additional review. Here is an update on that review. Statewide End-of-Course results were delivered to the Department in late July. Upon review, we immediately alerted our End-of-Course test vendor that additional review was warranted. We then pulled together our team of nationally recognized assessment experts – our Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) – to review. On August 18, the TAC concluded that two of the nine EOCs, the English II and Algebra I results, should not be publicly reported and should not be used in statewide accountability determinations. We concur with that recommendation. Things you should know: • We are holding the testing vendor, Questar, accountable for not producing usable assessment results. Our students and teachers work hard throughout the year and are counting on us to get this right. • We secured our testing vendor contract using required Office of Administration (OA) procurement services. Our assigned OA purchaser and attorney are working with us on this issue. • We are in the process reprogramming the Annual Performance Report (APR) to allow for exclusion of the Algebra I and English II EOCs. This will result in a slight delay of the final APR release. Timelines for the release will be available later in September. • These tests have been retired. Missouri educators have been developing new EOC exams based on the new Missouri Learning Standards. We applaud the work of our teachers and students for their hard work throughout the school year, and we must assure them that their work is appropriately represented.