Should children with ADD get extra time on test.

chocoholic
Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:05:13 +0000

Besides the problems mentioned above, some school districts classify large numbers of students, in order for their test scores to look better, as the classified students’ score are not included.

Another potentially unfair situation is when deciles are computed, a student who is actually in the top 10% of 400 students, actually falls to the second decile if the school chooses to set aside the classified students in this computation, and those 50 classified students are not included. Thus, the student who was ranked 38 of 400, now becomes 38 of 350.