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Are you saying that Pearson wrote the tests for Kentucky, and Pearson is one of the contractors writing the tests for PARCC, therefore the Kentucky tests are the PARCC tests?

Kentucky has been using tests designed for the Common Core. But they are not the PARCC tests.[/quote]

Of course I'm saying that, because it's true. The Pearson tests in NY, Kentucky and now North Carolina are created by Pearson, aligned with Common Core. These kids have been the guinea pigs for this Common Core nonsense. The impossible tests everyone in those states are failing will be rolled out to everyone next spring. Do you think the PARCC tests, written by exactly the same people using exactly the same standards, are going to be words different?

If it was a Common Core test answer, it would be PARCC = Pearson.

What is[b] PARCC?[/b]

A 19-state consortium working with the [b]Pearson education company [/b]to develop new computer-based exams in English and math. Massachusetts’ Education Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester is on the governing board of PARCC, one of two state-led groups working on developing a “next generation” standardized test. The other is the 25-state Smarter Balanced Assessment consortium. [/quote]

But the 19-state consortium is different from the state of KY and the state of NY.   They have a pretty rigorous review system set up, and they have been working to review the test items over the past years, unlike the process KY and NY had set up -- they got their tests done very quickly and clearly didn't review the test questions well.

http://www.parcconline.org/assessment-development

In addition ETS has been writing test items for PARRC -- it isn't all Pearson.

Now, I can't promise you will be happy with the eventual PARRC test.   I know I have my concerns about the desire to have the tests be completely administered via computer.   My own son can keyboard faster than he can write, so composing an essay on the computer will be a piece of cake for him... but I know most 6th graders will have more of a problem, and certainly the 3rd graders will.   I think provisions will need to be made to allow paper and pencil testing, at least for the first few years, as many schools do not have sufficient computers.

However, the test items I have seen seem good to me.     Much better than our current MSAs to be totally honest.[/quote][/quote]

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