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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except you just highlighted a huge issue rather than fixing it.  If this is test to see where kids are for instructional purposes and  if all the kids do worse on the test and the teacher is instructing kids below their actual level which does NOT help them.
 So yeah, everyone is affected and instruction is affected and your child and my child will receive poor instruction thanks to the test.

It does not help the kids who are used to reading guided reading books.  It doesn't really help the teachers (except less testing time) who have always made spreadsheets and checklists to know how to help their class. 
 It does however, help those who need to see the data at a school and district level...
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The paper arguments are raised by people who are against high stakes standardized testing.  This is diagnostic testing, not SOLs.  The best tests are calibrated for these things.  MAP testing is incredible and has been around for 30 years.  If you are a data/stat/programming nerd, you would be amazed at how advanced the test is and it will only get better.

Discounting the test results because it is computerized is short sighted.  Your child's whole future is going to be on a computer.  Tell your kid to do his/her bes and look at the results as insight into your child's academic progress so far.  Educators know that tests are snapshots. They are not the end all/be all, but education is moving away from the factory model to a more personalized mode where teacher adjust curriculum to the individual students.   That can't happen if we don't have easy access to high-quality, detailed data.  [/quote]

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