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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have any of you actually READ the tests?

READ the practice items.  Read the released tests (though none of the released tests yet reflect the new "rigor" of the past two years.)

I challenge you to read the Grade 3 Reading sample test and believe that this is a valuable and valid measure of a 3rd grade child's reading ability or the quality of a 3rd grade teacher:

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/practice_items/

(Scroll down to Grade 3 reading practice items.  The link will open in a new window.  The guide, with answers, is in a .pdf on the same row.)

This whole discussion is really totally moot unless you have some sense of the content and tasks in the tests.
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I don't think it's a good indicator of a child's teacher, but yes, I think it's fine as a basic standard for learning.[/quote]

One that you are ok with teacher's wasting weeks of time prepping for?  My daughter's science teacher (8th grade) had been prepping them for weeks, including Saturday sessions.  [/quote]

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