nysut.cc\/regentsconcerns26<\/a>. They\u2019re asking for the individual\u2019s name, email address, school district, and what best describes them \u2014 teacher who administered the Regents exams, student who took Regents exams, parent of a student who took the Regents exams, and other.<\/p>\nThey\u2019re also asking which exam(s) had problems \u2014 Algebra II, Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Space, English Language Arts or Physics \u2014 and ask individuals to describe their experience with the Regents tests.<\/p>\n
\u201cNYSUT is working on behalf of our members and their students to understand what happened and work with the state Education Department on corrective action for the future. Your input is crucial as we work with the state Education Department to address these concerns and protect the interests of students and educators across New York state,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Massena Central School Superintendent Ronald P. Burke said he had also heard concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cI share the concerns regarding the new science Regents examinations. The results on these examinations do not seem to accurately reflect the preparation\u00a0that our teachers and students have taken to meet the new standards,\u201d he said. \u201cI understand that aligning a new assessment with new learning standards is a challenging task. However, the magnitude of this potential misalignment appears to be greater than we would expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
SED spokesman JP O\u2019Hare, however, said there were no issues with the examinations, but rather with the instruction. He said questions on the Regents exams are always written, reviewed, and selected for inclusion by New York teachers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough the New York State Education Department\u2019s extensive, industry-standard test development processes, carried out in collaboration with hundreds of NYS teachers, we are confident that the Regents Exams are well-aligned with the state\u2019s learning standards,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we are hearing this year is concern that, in some schools, students were not taught all of the content that those standards require. That is an implementation issue, not an exam issue. Schools and districts must ensure that instruction reflects the current standards so every student has a fair opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do,\u201d O\u2019Hare said.<\/p>\n
He said SED has released \u201cextensive information and materials\u201d to support teachers and students in preparing for the exams since the new standards were adopted in 2016 and 2017<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department has released more information and materials for these Regents Exams than for any other assessment in the past 15 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hare said SED does not require or recommend that schools include Regents exam scores in students\u2019 final averages.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat decision is made locally by each district,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With Regents exams wrapping up, he said they would post the entire test publicly in the next few weeks as they always do with every Regents exam.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, we include an alignment chart with the scoring materials, which shows the learning standard measured by each question on the test. Teachers already have access to this as they are scoring the exams, and we always post that for the public as well,\u201c O\u2019Hare said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MASSENA \u2014 New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) say something was amiss with this year\u2019s Regents examinations, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,106424,105230,9,11,10,45705,49,13640,51,50,98192,106425,106423,14747],"class_list":["post-276878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-education","tag-educational-evaluation-methods","tag-exam","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-regents-examinations","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-education-department","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-united-teachers","tag-qualifications","tag-socialist-unity-party-of-germany","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}