The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.

  • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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    12 hours ago

    Well it’s probably both.

    Insights from the data probably were not being actioned, but I would strongly suspect that the data they are collecting simply doesn’t have a lot of predictive capacity.

    However, I don’t work with that specific data. I work with related data.

    The Western world is far too concerned with test scores when they are just complete and utter bs.

    I would say a test score is accurate plus or minus 40 % in terms of a student’s understanding of a subject. They’re just arbitrary.