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While this Standard Error of Mean (SEM) has statistical value in representing variability in student results, it has little to no practical use application for educators, the primary audience/users of SRS. Additionally, the likelihood this SEM will be confused with the more-valuable and useful Standard Error of Measurement for individual student scale scores (not least because both are abbreviated as SEM and both represented by the same +/- notation) would require user education/professional development that is an effort not felt to be of value comapred to suppressing that data. Directions to the User Guide or Interpretive Guide would not be sufficient as those resources only describe what the SEM (Mean) is, not how it could be used or how to interpret the value. I ask for an update as an option to suppress, not entirely remove, this functionality to allow other states the option to provide if desired, keeping the same level of data as in previous years but adding flexibility for states new to using SRS in the future.
Anton Jackson
BL - I agree that it could have a 'hide' option, but when it is displayed, it needs to be clear that the SEM for for the score is based on the large sample in the field test and not on a particular group of students that took the test in a particular LEA, school, or class.