Volume 22, Number 2
March/April 2006
Red Light, Green Light
Wyoming’s new accountability tests provide “traffic signals” to help teachers improve instruction
By ELLEN FORTE and W. JAMES POPHAM
Red Light, Green Light, continued
Red Light, Green Light: Wyoming’s new accountability tests provide “traffic signals” to help teachers improve instruction
Red Light, Green Light
Late last November, a small group of elementary school teachers gathered in Laramie, Wyoming, to field test a unique approach to reporting scores on Wyoming’s newly designed statewide accountability tests. Their goal: to see if they could arrive at a consistent process for making clear, practical, teacher-to-teacher recommendations on ways to fine-tune instruction, based on student scores.
This is an excerpt from the Harvard Education Letter.
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Late last November, a small group of elementary school teachers gathered in Laramie, Wyoming, to field test a unique approach to reporting scores on Wyoming’s newly designed statewide accountability tests. Their goal: to see if they could arrive at a consistent process for making clear, practical, teacher-to-teacher recommendations on ways to fine-tune instruction, based on student scores.
