... unfair if there were rankings
Agreed.
There are rankings. Lifelong rankings. Pupils may not be ranked immediately,
in a manner apparent to the student/parents. But once data is stored in the
Longitudinal Data System, it may be extracted
at any time over the years to be rated/ranked by any number of entities and/or researchers, for a variety of purposes.
I'm not a fan of data collection because I am aware that:
- the extensive data collection is usurping lifelong privacy, and thereby evaporating personal freedom and liberty
- the data collected can be "gamed"
- the data chosen for collection may be considered to have been selected or "cherry-picked" from a broader variety of data available
- subsequent uses of the data can provide skewed statistics
- subsequent uses of data can become weaponized
- parents (and eligible students) routinely experience difficulty in obtaining the data stored
- parents (and eligible students) are therefore not able to correct data
although 1) this is a FERPA right and 2) "quality, validilty, reliability" of data is a stated requirement of data collection
Storing accurate data may alleviate these concerns, to a degree. For example:
- recording scores of all assessments (both original and redo(s))
72 - 72 - 72 - 82- simply acknowledging that the final score was not the original score but was achieved on the
nth attempt
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