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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Federal law requires testing. The poster who mentioned a "short" tests for fall and spring that can be used to assess individual students strengths and weaknesses with associated tailoring has a nice idea. But, where's this test?

For better or worse, testing is more about accountability than identifying where students need support. That is the role of formative assessment.[/quote]. Most of the standardized tests the states use are either created at the state level, or are PARCC or Smarter Balanced and state hybrid tests. Confess does not require that long, poorly crafted corporate standardized tests are used to comply with Every Student Succeeds Act mandates. The fact is that some of the state tests can be taken in just 3 or 4 hours. DC had gone with a poor quality test that takes 10 hours die ES and 12 hours for MS.  The city council shouldn’t have let OSSE off the hook for its abysmal testing choices 8 years ago and shouldn’t continue to do so.
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