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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haha! Benchmark assessments are crap, very hard, and not used as an indicator for success at our school. We are not even doing them this year as they were not an accurate representation of what a student could do, made the kids have nervous breakdowns and low self-esteem as they rarely passed, and made our data skew negatively.[/quote] PP can you describe what the Benchmark assessments are trying to assess, and what types of questions they ask? [/quote] They cover the standards/indicators from the week's lessons. In theory, this sounds wonderful. In reality, the text selections they pick for the assessments are awful and no kid enjoys reading them. There are reading comprehension questions and some around foundational skills. There's often a question involving comparing & contrasting of two texts. It's definitely not an assessment of basic who, what, where, when type questions. [/quote]
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