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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and it seems like we test as much as we teach.  It is excessive but some of it has its value.  Testing that can give teachers instant results are actually useful and worthy of the time.  Testing that takes months to score is a waste of time and effort IMO.  I'm an ESOL teacher and we test our students in January/February each year.  We usually get the results in mid May just in time for the end of the school year!  By the time school begins in Aug/Sept, those test scores are no longer accurate.  We spend a few weeks administering our tests.  We do not teach during those weeks.  So our students miss out on weeks of instruction for us to get our results at the end of the year.  [/quote]

The ACCESS test can kind of considered to be an EOY test and shouldn't be used to base current year curriculum for a student.  For example students who met the exit criteria on the test are exited at the end of the school year.  So it's not like if the scores came any sooner, like it's say in March or April, the student would be exited immediately after receiving the score.

Similar in some school systems the ESOL level for the student next year is determined by the previous year's ACCESS score.[/quote]

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