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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the options other than PARCC? If it’s not a great test and there are better out there that’s one thing. But it seems like there is some hostility to measuring competencies and that is not something you can avoid forever in many fields, whether your are a plumber or a surgeon. [/quote]

I'd agree with you if the PARCC were...

*The product of a non-profit entity, like the IOWA Test of Basic Skills that I took as a kid, or a government entity.  I might even go for a test generated by an American company (Pearson is a British company).

*A well-crafted test that I was convinced tested competencies with a reassuring degree of accuracy.  Unfortunately, the PARCC is jammed with poorly-worded/confusing questions and most of the math tested isn't math as much as reading.  There are far too many long word problems on PARCC likely to stump ELL students who excel at math.  For these reasons, among others, 19 states have dropped PARCC since 2010.

*Was 2 or 3 hours long for elementary school, vs. 10 hours. For such a lengthy test, a small army of test writers and graders needs to be employed to implement it, generating huge profits for Pearson, and kids essentially miss a whole week of school to take it.  By contrast, when my 9-year-old applied to a CTY (gifted) summer camp for math, Johns Hopkins needed just 1 hour to determine that he was math gifted but not ELA gifted.

Ever ask yourself why Pearson, DCPS and DCPCS need 10 hours of testing to determine if your kid reads and does math at grade level?[/quote]

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