Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Invalid Assessments Everything that I have read and learned through my assessment courses in the masters program states that in order to fairly assess my students, the assessment questions must be valid. I have noticed that many of the assessment questions assigned on my district assessments do not fit with the standards. I brought this to the attention of my administrators and they said because it is district assessments that I must give it to the students. I just don't agree with this, I even offered to remake the tests and was told no. What could I do when I don't believe in something, but am told another? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) In our county, teachers are advised to view the assessments prior to giving them. While feedback is not necessarily encouraged, I spoke with our testing coordinator about some discrepancies with alignment to standards on our calendar and he asked me to detail my concerns in an email. While we were still required to give the test, after he forwarded the concerns on to the district assessment office, they decided to throw out some of the questions that were not correctly aligned based on teacher feedback. So even though the test was not able to be changed on such short notice, the grading was modified to only include the appropriate questions.