PARCC Data Flawed - Second School District Comes Forward
GoLocalProv News Team and Kate Nagle
PARCC Data Flawed - Second School District Comes Forward
"We had an issue with one of elementary schools. We had a number of students take the alternate assessment, but the state counted those kids as regular ed kids, so then it looked like our participation rate was lower than it should be," said Superintendent William Rearick.
The revelation comes following the Scituate School Department claiming their middle school numbers were wrong, which RIDE acknowledged it was looking into.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"We told RIDE they need to make the correction," continued Rearick. "They told us they were aware of the situation but that it wasn't corrected in time."
RIDE Says Schools Responsible
"We were the only distinct that did full paper-pencil," said Rearick. According to RIDE, eighty percent of the 75,000 students who took them did so on computers, and twenty percent were pencil and paper.
"I think the important part is that this is an important number, said Rearick. "I’ll give everyone the benefit of the double, but clearly we were unlucky."
RIDE said it was continuing to review issues with the test results -- but says the schools should have looked closer at the results before they went public.
"As is typical on publication of a report with thousands of data elements we are reviewing a number of data points. We will update as necessary and will inform media of any updates," said Elliot Krieger at RIDE. "We do not anticipate any effect on state-level results. Please also note that school districts had their results for review prior to the public release."
Scituate Assistant Superintendent Lawrence Filippelli, whose district is seeking a correction, spoke to the status of the process on Thursday.
"RIDE did reach out to me yesterday afternoon to tell me they were working on everything for me. I have to say, they are doing the right thing by us with the re-analyzation," said Filippelli. "They are going to send a correction and explanation of the correction to our School Committee and Superintendent at some point. I am just awaiting the new data set from them so I can finish my district-wide analysis after the new numbers come in. I am hopeful that they will acknowledge the glitch and correction publicly as well as with the district committee and leadership.
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