SIMCE: The Backbone of Chile's Educational Quality Assessment
If you are reviewing a school’s SIMCE score today, follow this three-step rule: it is a destructive force.
The answer is nuanced. When used to identify sick schools (low learning outcomes) and target aid, it is a powerful force for equity. When used to shame teachers, rank children, or streamline human beings into "good" and "bad" schools based on a single bubble sheet, it is a destructive force. it is a destructive force.