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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PARCC tests were better than the previous state-written assessments. And now here we are, back to new and different state-written assessments.[/quote]

BS, the only issue with the state assessments was they didn't provide national comparisons.  PARCC was ill conceived and slapped together on all levels.[/quote]

Did you have anything to do with the previous MSAs? They were terrible.[/quote]

They were straightforward, and throwing the baby out with the bath water has achieved nothing.[/quote]

What baby, what bathwater? The curriculum changed, so the tests had to change. Now the curriculum isn't changing (the state isn't un-adopting the Common Core State Standards), but the tests are changing anyway.[/quote]
 
This is the comparison that was presented to parents when PARCC rolled out: [url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/burtonsvillees/news/Attachment%20A%20Key%20Facts.pdf[/url]
Look at the two math questions.  There's nothing about the new curriculum that makes the MSA question irrelevant.  And although we were told the PARCC question is clearly deeper and richer, it's not.  The only thing it requires is more reading comprehension.  If you actually look at the math involved, there's no grand concept, it's busy work.  Any thought put into the solution is wasted, just get do the plugging and be done.  The MSA question actually tests what the concept of remainder means in a real world scenario, maybe that's old hat, but it's not nothing.

Now of course this is making too much of a single comparison, but this is *the* sample question the PARCC people decide to release to sell their test.  School systems across the country flashed this same question up to wow parents.  No need for a postmortem, PARCC's dead, we were sold a bill of goods.[/quote]

the parcc question is much more difficult. please stop talking about math, you know nothing.[/quote]

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