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State To Replace Mastery Test With Computerized, Personalized Test
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Jul 15, 2012 10:29 AM
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I realize that I am jumping to conclusions, but I cannot think of a more ridiculous--although high-flown sounding--way of testing students.
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http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-mastery-testing-ending-0713-20120713,0,5890056.story
State To Replace Mastery Test With Computerized, Personalized Test In Two Years
Goodbye To Bubbled-In Answers; New Tests Will Be Interactive, Use Audio, Video
By KATHLEEN MEGAN, kmegan@courant.com
The Hartford Courant July 13, 2012
If all goes as planned, the Connecticut Mastery Test, bubbled in with pencil on paper, will become a relic of the past in two years, replaced by a new, more customized online testing system.
By the 2014-2015 school year, state officials hope to retire the Connecticut Mastery Test, which is taken by third- through eighth-graders, and its companion, the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, which is taken in 10th grade.
In its place will be computerized tests, essentially personalized for each student. As a student progresses through a test, the questions presented will vary depending on whether the student got previous questions right or wrong.
Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that with the new tests ? under development by the federally-funded Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium ? if a student gets "a question wrong, the system will provide other questions to try to get at what the underlying deficiency is."
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