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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Northrup Grumman profits from the eCART test engine, Horizon. As much as I hate Pearson, at least Test Nav has useable tools and an easily readable screen. Horizon is a useability nightmare. Try to teach a bunch of third graders how to open a separate eindoe, resize the window, and toggle between windows just so you can highlight in a reading passage. Then when you click to the next question all of your highlighting disappears.

What's worst about quarterly eCART required division assessments is not the software though (and they do have audio for those), it's how poorly written they are. We keep giving meds tests with countywide pass rates in the 30s and 40s. Is that an accurate assessment when pass rates in our school for SOLs are in the high 80s/low 90s? So, half of our kids are being unnecessarily tortured and experiencing failure even when they actually have mastered he standards. All this wasted instructional time, all this unnecessary failure.[/quote]

eCart has been a huge waste of money.  It has been around for years and they just can't seem to admit is has not worked and deep six it.[/quote]

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