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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you talking about class tests or standards assessment tests?  Class tests policy is probably teacher specific.  For standards, I think most are supposed to be mailed to the parents.  I've certainly received several of DC's test scores in the mail.[/quote]

Just scores?  Not actual tests?[/quote]

A lot of the assessment tests are taken online, and no you don't get them back.  I don't ever remember getting my SAT tests back, only the test scores.[/quote]

True, you don't get your SAT tests back, but that was the FIRST test I didn't get back in my entire education.  So I don't think that proves that this is normal.[/quote]

That's bizarre.

As both a public and private school student, I took standardized tests every year from about 3rd grade.  I never saw the tests again. Where did you go to school?

MCPS has gone to common assessments across the county.  So, every student in Algebra 2 takes the same unit test.  That way they can assure that students are getting the same material, and proving mastery at the same level.  Obviously, having put a lot of effort into developing tests, they want them to be secure.

Tests that are created by the teacher are usually returned, in my experience.  [/quote]

As a public and private school student, I didn't take standardized tests every year.  I took the SAT, the SSAT, some kind of assessment to get into my private HS, and an IQ test to get into a gifted program.  Other than that, it was normal tests, which were marked up and graded and sent home.   I went to public schools in MD, NM, VA, and private schools in MD.
Look, if you want to tell me that MCPS will give us all tests except an annual assessment that doesn't affect the kid's grade, then I can be happy with that.  But we both know that's not what's happening here.  Kids are being deprived the extremely valuable experience of being able to learn from their own mistakes.  [/quote]

PP again -- you realize, of course, that they can do common assessments across the county and still send tests home.  It just means creating a new test each year.  Not that hard.  [/quote]

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