STAR Results and Proficiency Scores

National Academic and Character Team Databits 2 Comments

My state proficiency scores don’t agree with my STAR results, What’s going on? Proficiency is a statistically vague term that is defined in vastly different ways by different people. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines proficient as “well advanced in an art, occupation, or branch of knowledge”. This is fine, but there will be a lot of variation in what observers think …