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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The true issue is that there are limited questions on the assessments. Let’s say there are only 4 questions. Your options are to get a 100, 75, or 50 and below. If we are trying to mastery for a particular skill or standard then there should not be just one question on the skill or standard on the assessment. That is not a true reflection of mastery. Yet, we can not add tot he test so we can’t give more questions other than the district made test. It is a lose lose situation. Take every opportunity for retake is what I tell my families.

- a teacher[/quote]

What types of a Summative are being given directly by the County for a class that would only have 4 questions?[/quote]

The ones for math have 10-12.

I think they’re trash, so my team has opted to give them as a formative “practice tests” in class the day before, assign corrections as homework, and then write our own paper summative where we can do partial credit, short answer, have kids fully graph, restrict calculator usage, etc.

I realize that not all teams do that though. My child’s own teacher is using them as the sole summative assignments and it drives me insane. The questions are terrible and they’re too short to be indicative of understanding.[/quote]

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