If things go as planned, Common Core could reorganize curriculum, change old-school teaching styles, add more weight to literacy and redefine standardized testing. In one year, it’s supposed to be fully implemented in all Oklahoma schools, and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (SDE) just started looking for new tests. It has been a loaded […]
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Exhaustive exams
In the wake of glitches with online standardized testing, some school districts and state lawmakers question the validity of the exams. BY PHIL BACHARACH Nothing gets people testy like test-taking, especially when accessing the test becomes a sort of test in itself. That was the case for 9,100 Oklahoma students in sixth through 12th grade […]
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Exhausted exams
Repeated server outages from online testing vendor CTB/McGraw-Hill resulted in disruptions of exams administered April 29-30. High school students had been taking high-stakes, taking end-of-instruction (EOI) exams required to earn a high school diploma. Tests taken by the middle schoolers are factored into the state Department of Education’s A-F grading of schools. In the wake […]