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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, if teachers are required to teach only the grade-level curriculum and nothing but the grade-level curriculum, regardless of where the actual students are, that's a real problem. But it's a problem with the school administrators. The Common Core standards do not require this.

So, are you going to give the fifth grade test to a child in the seventh grade--who is doing fifth grade work?[/quote]

I took education courses to be certified years ago.  One was a "testing" course which taught us how to write fair test questions, how to check reliability and validity, etc.

Anyway, one of the cardinal rules of testing was that you never test over something that you have not taught.  It's not fair to the student nor to the whole educational process.  [/quote]

That doesn't mean you should teach to the test.  The standard outlines the minimum content expectation, which teachers should meet and ideally exceed however they like.  The tests should be based on the minimum content standard.  If you think the test is covering material that wasn't covered then that's a curriculum problem - the content being taught doesn't meet the minimum standard.  It's not a test problem.[/quote]

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