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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But although you can't take county assessments home to keep, the students review hem at school with the teacher and parents are entitled to see them at school -- they just can't be kept at home.[/quote]

You can't possibly think this is the same.

A parent can make a conference appointment for 5-10 minutes with each teacher for each separate test. The parent can not take notes. A student, especially a young middle school kid, is not going to be able to digest and identify why they got certain problems wrong for the brief time in class in when they can see the test. The kid is not going to memorize the problems and then work through them at home.

This is bad pedagogy, plain and simple. [/quote]

Here's what I don't get about your opinion.  If the tests mirror what was taught and they mirror the formatives that do come home (they are just bigger), why do they need that particular test to study?  Besides, these tests that don't come home are the summatives, which occur at the end of a unit.  So there is not going to be another test on the material.  [/quote]

"If the tests mirror what was taught" -- assumes that it does mirror what was taught, and that it was taught well.  Sometimes true, more often isn't.
"If the tests mirror the formatives that do come home (they are just bigger)" -- in some ways they do, and in some ways they don't.  Also, it's a different circumstance.  Time pressure is much different, and that makes a huge difference for some kids -- either due to anxiety or differences in speed.  
So, no, the way they do it now is not good enough.  There's no good reason not to let kids have the advantage of getting their own tests and being able to spend time with them.
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PP, has your child tried to retake a test?  Is it available as an option?  Maybe that's a way for him/her (and for you) to get comfortable with the test process and the material.  From what's been posted, it seems like a good way to do that.  Someday (college?) those kinds of dry runs, do-overs and opportunities to get copies of past tests won't exist.  Test taking is a skill in and of itself.[/quote]

Actually in college you get your test back.[/quote]

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