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PARCC and Smarter Balanced are a train wreck: Crashing systems, too-long tests, reading levels grades above where the kids are at, questions on things they've never been taught.

South Carolina actually bailed on Smarter Balanced midstream it was so horrible!

ANd here's a newly minted PARCC hater from Ohio:

http://testingtalk.org/response/observations-from-parcc-assessment
Observations from PARCC Assessment

Author: Anonymous, Teacher
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    State: OH
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    Test: PARCC - pilot
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    Date: April 4 at 12:47 pm ET

My students took the Math 1 Field Test for PARCC over the last two days.[b] They were incredibly frustrated.[/b] Although they got logged on okay (except for 4 and that was never resolved), they found the interface to be slow. Several students’ computers got locked up and we had to log them out and re-log them in.[b] My students had not seen or used a TI-84 graphing calculator before and they were frustrated because of that. And as far as the content… well, let’s just say that they had not seen very much of that before. I knew that going in. Even stuff they had seen before, they had difficulty with due to how the questions were worded. They didn’t understand what information was provided or what they question was.[/b]

Our field test was 24 questions over 3 sections. In the PBA blueprint, it said it would be 18 questions. The Model Content Frameworks that were provided by PARCC marked items as “major content,” “supporting content,” or “additional content.” I am fairly certain that all content that was listed was on the test in one form or another. Some topics that were listed as supporting content made an appearance several times – to the point that I thought it was major content.

Needless to say,[b] it has been an incredibly frustrating and depressing couple of days.[/b]
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