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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adaptive testing is now becoming the gold standard. It's great. I support the changes if it means MCAP becomes adaptive.

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An adaptive test *after the course is over* is not helpful.

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What sort of nonsense is this? You want to give tests BEFORE kids start learning about the topic?

Adaptive tests extend the range of differentiation, PP. All too often, particularly for American tests, assessments are specifically constructed to address the middle-achievers. They usually end up lumping all the poor scorers into one group, without differentiating those who answered entirely at random and those who remembered a little bit of their class and scored slightly better than that, which is really unhelpful when trying to adjust accommodations for students with specific learning needs. And they end up lumping all the top scorers into one group, even though education among the high achievers has become ever more competitive and there is a real need to identify the truly excellent kids for secondary and higher education levels: we must differentiate between the students who have a solid grasp of the topic, and those who have exceptional mastery.

So adaptive tests tell us a lot more about ALL the students, instead of just focusing on the middle range.

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