i think we have to offer caution to the fact that there isn't the degree of technical quality that would allow that kind of interpretation. janet. i agree that it always has an impact on instruction. but i guess my concern is that the test does not really give instructional information to teachers. and my understanding was that that's why we were going to have the supplementary materials to show what the implications for instruction might be. i think most of us sitting around this table could very comfortably look at the stances and mold that and put that into instruction. but i do know, having worked with a variety of teachers, that many times that just by looking at an assessment, they can't then change it and mold it into what they see as instruction. so i think at least i agree. i think we have to be clear to say that there are some things that you can understand from this assessment, but there are also going to be some things that we don't get now. and that's why there is a need to have other types of assessments that are going on in the classroom. janet, how would you augment that sentence? or do you feel comfortable with the sentence that the primary goal in fact it says is true? i mean, you don't have to do that right now. but i'm wondering, do you feel comfortable with that? or you would prefer that we come to some adjustment of that sentence? it didn't bother me when i first looked at it. but now, looking at it more carefully, i do think that it's not the test itself is not really going to give instructionally useful information. it's going to give us some information about what the student is doing. but i think that teachers are going to have to look at it a little more carefully before they decide how that's going to impact their instruction. right. at least the primary goal is certainly something that we would want to change. moddy and then ginny. it seems like maybe we need to make the distinction between to say what instructional useful means. does it mean individually useful? or maybe, we should the use word "curriculum." because i agree with alice and what marsh was thinking and with what marilyn started with that that has kind of been the point of this that we do want to kind of model instructional in sort of a general way, maybe in a curricula way. we want to provide that kind of information.