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KSDE changes to assessment cut scores mean 2024-25 results are not comparable, district says
Summary
Assistant superintendent Holly Putnam Jackson told the board the Kansas assessment program adopted new performance-level descriptors and cut scores; district staff cautioned results from the new assessment should not be compared with prior years.
Dr. Holly Putnam Jackson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, told the Derby Board of Education that the Kansas State Department of Education and the state board approved changes to performance-level descriptors and cut scores for the Kansas assessment program.
"They approved a new assessment, and they have approved those new cut scores," Putnam Jackson told the board, explaining that the state convened educators this summer to realign standards and determine the score thresholds that represent performance…
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