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Board hears explanation of adaptive PM testing and its effect on reading/math proficiency scores
Summary
District assessment staff explained how adaptive progress‑monitoring (PM) tests change complexity by student responses, noted that students cannot skip questions without penalty, and said that this undermines simple error counting when interpreting proficiency shifts between PM1 and PM2.
District assessment staff explained adaptive progress‑monitoring (PM) testing and how changes in test complexity affect interpretation of reading and math proficiency scores.
Mr. Schneider, an assessment staff member who led the explanation, told the board that the PM tests are adaptive and change question difficulty depending on a student’s answers. He said the algorithm grades based on question complexity rather than raw counts of missed items. “A child could miss 10 and still score at a level…
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