In our opinion: Assessment exams still provide useful data

With a decline in scores in SAGE tests among Utah public school students, and a slight increase in ACT test scores, educators can choose to either look at the situation as a glass half full or a glass half empty. In either case, they will be seeing only half a glass, and that’s certainly not preferable to steady year-to-year improvement in student achievement.Scores in the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence tests declined for the first time in the four years the exams have been ad