Standardized testing during the pandemic
Garden Hills Elementary School in Champaign, IL Reginald Hardwick/Illinois Newsroom
When schools shifted to remote learning in March 2020, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made the unprecedented decision to let states cancel standardized testing. Every state, including Illinois, did so, but that allowance did not extend to 2021. Tests proceeded, and when results were released, some were concerned that the data did not grant substantive insight into the impacts of the pandemic on student learning.
With a second round of pandemic-era standardized tests beginning this spring, we considered the current state assessment landscape in Illinois and how it may need to change going forward with an Illinois state senator and leaders from education groups.
GUESTS:
State Senator Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas
D-Chicago
Cassie Creswell
Director, Illinois Families for Public Education
Al Llorens
Vice President, Illinois Education Association
Paul Zavitkovsky
Center for Urban Education Leadership, University of Illinois Chicago
Young children are still in the throes of intellectual and emotional development, making standardized tests developmentally inappropriate. That’s why I’m championing the Too Young to Test Act with help from @il_fps.
— Senator Cristina Pacione-Zayas (@SenPacioneZayas) February 9, 2022
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