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[quote=Anonymous]The Benchmark assessments, in 5th grade at least, are dreadful, with many vague, ambiguous, and/or poorly written questions being passed off as “rigorous.” For example, a question requires the child to identify then meaning of a word using context clues, but the context clues in the text (if any) are insufficient to actually determine the meaning, so what the question actually measures is whether you knew the meaning of the word beforehand. Or weird questions like “how does the illustration contribute to the author’s tone?” when the illustration is a simple line drawing with a very literal depiction of an event in the text and no apparent contribution to the “tone” whatsoever.

By contrast, the reading SOL questions are pretty meticulously vetted. New questions are piloted and statistics analyzed before they are actually counted in the score. They make sense and the questions actually assess the skills they are purported to assess. I think it’s going to be a relief after the frustration of the Benchmark assessments, to be honest. [/quote]

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