The Validity of The Quality of Instruction Provided to The Students Analysis

I’m working on a writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Imagine that you teach mathematics and social studies in an urban middle school.

The superintendent of your school district has asked you to help her get ready to make an upcoming presentation to the district school board about the instructional sensitivity of educational tests.

Three members of the district board have asked your superintendent to address this particular issue. They have heard from several parents that the tests currently used in district-directed evaluation studies are instructional insensitive —that is, seem unable to distinguish between well taught and badly taught students. Although the superintendent agrees with the importance of the issue, she knows almost nothing about instructional sensitivity. She asks you if you would be willing to write up a brief description of what instructional sensitivity is. If you can get this description to her within a week, then she’ll have time to do some more searching on the Internet in preparation for the board meeting.

Please prepare the requested description for your superintendent describing (1) the nature of instructional sensitivity as applied to educational tests, (2) why it is important if students’ test performances are employed to evaluate schools or teachers, and (3) how we can reduce a test’s instructional insensitivity.