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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is important to conduct the PARCC this year. We need an apples-to-apples comparison to the previous PARCC results to inform us on the impact of DL. Once you switch standardized tests, it's effectively impossible to meaningfully compare the results to the old test. If we think there are other standardized tests that are superior to the PARCC, we can switch to another test next year.

We have had the largest disruption to education in over a 100 years. As a consequence, standardized testing has never been more important. We need to know the impact of this disruption.[/quote]

As a person who is pretty familiar with PARCC, this assertion is wrong. There will not be an apples to apples comparison. Grade 3 would be new to the test this year, as will be 4th grade. So what previous data will those scores be compared to? Nothing. So both scores would be a baseline. Grade 5 has data from when they tested in grade 3. So there is data there but then the problem lies in administering the test.

It is a secure test with strict guidelines on how to administer it. People have said that students would have to come back to school to take the test in person. But DCPS said that we could administer it remotely. How can we ensure students aren’t cheating? It’s easy to text your friends to work out a problem together. Because of that unknown factor, the data isn’t reliable.

And - it takes a long time. In regular times, it is 4 math sections and 3-4 ELA sections. Each section is 60 to 90 minutes long.

I agree there needs to be data, but PARCC is not the right tool to gather it.[/quote]

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