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I’m an elementary APS teacher. I have no idea what you are talking about with this testing… sounds like you are not in an SBG school.

We do multiple check ins and also track formative assignments for progress. Students have many many opportunities to show mastery of a standard. 
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You're saying math tests are not multiple choice and students are required to show their work?

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Our math check-ins are a mix of multiple choice and showing work, depending on the question.  We do have students show their work.  If your teacher uses mastery connect for all tests and quizzes, that's up to them, and then the questions are mult choice, write in the blank, drag and drop, etc.

Each quarter APS also makes a larger quarterly assessment that is SOL style on mastery connect which is our online testing software attached to canvas.  It's not required to use mastery connect.[/quote]
We were told that APS has made Mastery Connect mandatory and that teachers must use it for tracking math progress, so it has to be used for all tests/evaluations.  It doesn't matter if kids show their work. Like all things APS, I'm sure your mileage varies by elementary school.[/quote]

I’m an APS elementary teacher. We have never been told that mastery connect is required for anything. We do use it sometimes but it’s not a great program (especially compared to powertest whuch we used previously). We prefer paper pencil and we often reformat to paper pencil from master connect.[/quote]

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