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
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.
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