Commentary
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
The way we set grade-level norms on tests masks pandemic learning loss
There are, generally speaking, two ways to report students’ performance on tests. One is normative, and it compares a student’s performance to his peers. The second is criterion, and it compares a student’s performance to learning standards, indicating grade-level proficiency and is independent of peers’ test performance.