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CityViews: As Standardized Tests Loom, Improvements are Illusory

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  • Richard WJ DiSalvo
    Posted March 25, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    The elimination of time limits hasn’t made much sense to me. Does untimed testing in practice just mean school-chosen time limits (rather than statewide time limits)?

    • Two Teachers
      Posted March 25, 2016 at 8:27 pm

      No one is sure, there has been no effort to define what “making progress” looks like or means – the head of the teachers union in NYC is suggesting teachers insist administrators decide when kids should stop so no one tries to blame anything in teachers.

  • Even in Australia
    Posted March 29, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    Also, the schools have been given no guidance on logistical issues that the untimed tests pose: what are students who finish early to do, now that they may have to wait much longer for their classmates to finish? Still just sit and do nothing? And what if testing runs into a class’s regularly scheduled lunch period?

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