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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyway, the point is the test is bad because it discourages you, and I am not even sure how accurate it is because some answers can be guessed and guessed right. 
I don’t know what happened to the good old assessment of what one had been already exposed to! [/quote]

Wrong!  If they only assessed what each kid has been exposed to, you'd end up with a lot of kids who have perfect scores.  The test would identify the struggling kids, but it would do nothing to identify the kids who are advanced.

Also, kids have assessments of things they haven't been exposed to [b]all of the time[/b].  Many of the Beginning of Year tests, which every FCPS kid takes every year, will cover the stuff that the kid will be exposed to throughout the year.  This way, they can identify kids who need remediation as well as kids who need extensions, and they can track progress by comparing the beginning of year tests to the end of year tests.  MAP testing, which is done almost everywhere except FCPS, is also adaptive and will ask kids things that they haven't been exposed to if the kid answers questions correctly.

Stop treating your child like some delicate snowflake who can't understand that the test might ask things he hasn't yet seen, and in that case, he should just guess and move on.  The overwhelming majority of kids across the country can cope with adaptive tests without any issues.  [/quote]

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