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Test scores now track individuals
Herald Denver Bureau
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SchoolView: www.schoolview.org
The SchoolView Web site made its debut Friday. It replaces the School Accountability Reports that rated schools on how well entire grades of students performed.
Critics of the Colorado Student Assessment Program have complained that the tests offered no useful information about individual students.
SchoolView uses the CSAP scores to help parents and teachers to identify where a student needs to improve and craft a plan, Gov. Bill Ritter said.
"Now we can compare that child this year to that child last year, and we say, 'How have we done?'" Ritter said.
Colorado is the first state to create such a system. Massachusetts and Indiana are interested in copying the program.
This year's CSAP showed mixed results. Seventh-graders across the state showed strong improvement in reading, writing and math, and Hispanic students in all grades improved their writing scores. But math scores were down in three of the eight grades tested, and poor and minority students continued to lag behind.
"The achievement gap in the state is still far too large," Ritter said.
At Department of Education headquarters Friday, officials recognized 161 schools that had high growth in test scores three years running. Two Southwest Colorado schools, Animas Valley Elementary School and Pagosa Springs Junior High School, made the list.
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