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[quote=Anonymous]These tests are not fair. In math they could not go back and review answer. If your kid is not the type to work slowly and double check her work, she was probably picking some answers too quickly and once she hit the next arrow, it was too late to go back. If she did a calculation and didn't look closely to see if it was labeled millimeters and not centimeters, she could have missed it.

On the reading, the poems were in a text window of only eight lines each, so they had to spend a lot of time scrolling up and down and it was distracting. For informational flyers or directions, the text boxes were also very small, so they had to scroll repeatedly.

For many questions, all the answer choices were not visible and they had to know to scroll down to see more choices. If they didn't think to do that, they were screwed. I saw kids not read the whole selection because they didn't scroll all the way down. They just didn't realize.

Other kids were distracted by playing with the highlighter function or changing the background color, just because they could.

If your child didn't take tests online all year, she was probably not used to the computer format. If she had a new teacher, she probably didn't get the extensive test taking strategy lessons she needed.

I would not be worried this year, but you could ask how she did compared to her classmates, and make sure to read with her and discuss higher level thinking, like inferencing and making predictions.

I was horrified at how unfair the test format was.[/quote]

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