Pearson imposes gag order on teachers about test.

[kmlisle]

105. The context is completely different here

You have trained and experienced professionals being gagged about a newly developed product in their field of expertise which is worth billions of dollars because of its scale and taxpayers money available. They are deliberately being kept out of the process of making this a fair and valid test for financial and political reasons.

Would you want your industrial proficiency test developed under conditions in which no one with knowledge of your industry participated or were allowed to help improve the test to make it fair and valid? And if the reason they were doing this was to show that the staff of your organization were incompetent and could all be fired when their partners take over the firm and drain its resources a la vulture capitalism?

You are absolutely right that there needs to be testing security, but first tests must also be valid and fair and their purpose should be to help in the process of public education - not to set a false pretext for destroying it.

And thank you Mad for posting - I hope you will continue as you offer a valuable point of view.

From another Florida Teacher, National Board certified in science, and fed up with Pearson Tests. Testing in our local schools was delayed this month because of repeated computer glitches, further stealing time when our children could get an education instead of bubbling in test answers for the fiftieth time this year.