Project 03 · Series AE
The Assessment Engine
One symbol, carrying four different things.
The four components are drawn as equal shares because the real mix is unknown, unstated and different in every school and every classroom. That is the argument rather than a gap in the data: a figure nobody can decompose is being read as a measurement.
Strong diagnosis, unproven remedy
The blended grade is unreliable
Terminal massing fights consolidation
Any particular reform will fix it
Act on the diagnosis. Run the remedy as a structured experiment, and say out loud that it is one. Every product in this project is built to hold those two things apart, because collapsing them is how reforms get promised and then withdrawn.
Nobody has held it
Zero
Jurisdictions that have held a major assessment reform stable, at scale. Four serious attempts, four retreats or stalls.