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Kerfuffle with the Bangor Assessment Program

In a phone conversation on 10/30/00 Dr. Sandy Ervin, superintendent of Bangor Schools, described the Bangor Assessment of Reading Program as being literature-based and similar to the materials teachers use in their classrooms. In order to strive for valid and reliable testing, the program provides two equivalent book lists in case a student had already read or seen the first. Dr Ervin stated that there is 'no mandate' to take books off the library shelves and that principals were not told during the training to remove library books from circulation. He further elaborated that is was up to the local literacy committee or council in the school running the program to decide the details on how the assessment might work best. He feels that "no copyright laws are violated nor property rights infringed upon."

 

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