Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is launching an effort to update scoring metrics for the state’s school and district report cards, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The move follows criticism claiming that state education officials were lowering learning standards, which stemmed from changes to standardized test scoring.
Issued each year, the report cards rate schools and districts using several factors, including academic achievement on standardized tests, attendance, graduation rates and disadvantaged students’ performance. Possible ratings, determined by the number of points awarded on a 100-point scale, include “significantly exceeds expectations,” “exceeds expectations,” “meets expectations,” “meets few expectations” and “fails to meet expectations.”
DPI intends to review so-called “cut scores,” or the performance thresholds for each rating category.
