Greenville, Belding, Carson City-Crystal schools react to MEAP results, changes in scoring | News

By Kelli Ameling and Elisabeth Waldon
From The Daily News

Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) scores for fall 2011 were released Wednesday and local school officials are analyzing the results in light of changes to the testing system.

State officials raised the “cut scores” last year to determine whether students are proficient in certain subjects.

“It sets the bar a little higher,” said Diane Brissette, assistant superintendent at Greenville Public Schools. “It sets the criteria higher to be successful.”

Brissette said because cut scores were raised, scores could show a decrease in the percentage of student proficiency; however, that may not be an accurate portrayal. For example, Greenville’s third grade math scores came back at 24 percent proficiency compared to 2010’s score of 94 percent.

“This is comparing apples to oranges,” Brissette noted.

So schools could compare newly released scores to previous years, the state also...

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