Oopsie. The Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) scores for students in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who took the test early this year have been lost. More than 1,000 - or one-seventh - of the district's scores have gone AWOL:
The missing Michigan Educational Assessment Program scores appear to be limited to those attained by students tested in January and February at elementary and middle schools...
The state Department of Treasury administers the MEAP program and contracts out the testing to Durham, N.C.-based Measurement Inc. Spokesman Terry Stanton said Treasury staff is working with the company to figure out what went wrong.
The state needs the scores for several reasons, including score grades required under NCLB and determining qualification for Merit Award Scholarships.
"This is getting to the point of ridiculousness that it's almost funny," said Grand Rapids school board Vice President Amy McGlynn. "After all these months, the scores have pretty much lost their meaning anyway. We needed these scores months ago if we were going to do anything productive with them."
Hey, glad to see someone has a sense of humor about the whole thing. But one state representative, Michael Sak (D-Grand Rapids), isn't laughing. He's asked the state to take responsibility for the tests and refuse to work with Measurement, Inc. any more.
Posted by kswygert at August 29, 2003 11:17 AM