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My kid says she is told ahead of time what kind of test it will be because school tests can be retaken -- county tests can not.  The retest process is kind of cool because it gives the kid a chance to correct dumb mistakes, figure out something that wasn't understood, or just try for an improved score.  My kid retook a rest and the process was completely transparent to me.  Actually, my participation was required.

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I am often critical of MCPS but this retest process seems like a large burden on the teachers.       When do the students retake the test?       Presumably it is not during class time.    The participation of the parents is required?     This seems like a large burden on parents who cannot get off from work.       I am trying to imagine a class of 25 and say 10 students want to retake the test.       Does the teacher hold 10 separate sessions with each student to go over the initial test (since the test cannot be taken home)?      And she needs to do this for each of her classes?       It is hard for me to imagine that this is standard procedure in MCPS but perhaps I am wrong.[/quote]

The retake is to be scheduled by the student (so the student assumes responsibility for the process...a learning experience in itself).  The kids have a study period, so I suppose it can be done then, or during class if there are enough students...or possibly before or after school.  I don't know.  As the parent, my participation is limited to signing off on having seen the original test (all retakeable tests are school-level, so they come home).  I review it, and if my kid chooses to retake it, I can oversee my kid's correction of the incorrect work and completion of additional questions to demonstrate understanding -- she cannot retake the test unless she does all this.  By participation, I do not mean that I go to the school to take it with her or observe.  That would be crazy.  My kid tells me that it's possible to retake tests in all classes for school-level tests.  I was told by a teacher that it is meant to be burdensome so kids don't just screw around on tests with the expectation that they can just redo it...they have to really want to improve and take the steps to show they want to learn what they didn't get correct.  I get the sense it's so much trouble that there aren't a lot of requests to retake unless there's a serious problem.  But obviously there is a process for parents to get all up in their kids' business on these tests...which seems to be something many parents here want.

I have no idea whether this is a process allowed in all schools.  Our kid goes to Pyle MS, and this is their process for all school-level (not county-level) tests.  County level tests cannot be retaken, and they do not go home.  For those, the teacher goes over the tests in class with the students and parents who still want to see the tests can ask to come in to see them.[/quote]

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