COLUMN: Walters’ plan to overhaul Oklahoma’s assessment system will just lead to more ‘misguided testing’

COLUMN: Walters’ plan to overhaul Oklahoma’s assessment system will just lead to more ‘misguided testing’

You can’t know what you don’t measure, and you can’t accurately track progress if the tool keeps changing.

Walters’ plan to overhaul Oklahoma’s assessment system will just lead to more ‘misguided testing’

Kindergarten students play on a rug in their classroom at Thelma R. Parks Elementary in Oklahoma City on Aug. 13, 2025. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice)You can’t know what you don’t measure, and you can’t accurately track progress if the tool keeps changing. Yet, Oklahoma leaders at the Education Department want to change testing requirements again and are proposing using tools that are not designed to measure whether students have …