Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez works with third graders doing math at Wendell Green Elementary School in Chicago on Sept. 19, 2023.
“Our investments in classroom resources, support and instruction have yielded the biggest year-over-year gains since 2016,” Martinez said in a district news release. The statement credited an improvement in average Illinois Assessment of Readiness scores to the hiring of additional staff and the expansion of curriculum, student supports and teacher development in the previous school year.
Standardized test scores are often perceived as strong and valid indicators of students’ academic performance, Elaine Allensworth, director of the UChicago Consortium on School Research told the Tribune “The truth is, they’re partial indicators,” she said. “They give you some information, but there’s just a lot about a student’s academic preparation that can’t be measured on standardized tests.”
“They are highly predictive of future test scores, but standardized test scores only partially measure the skills students need to succeed in later years of schooling or careers, and are very imprecise indicators of how students will perform in the future,” she said.
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