What gets assessed (was Re: SRA)

[George Sheridan <gsheridan@BOMUSD.K12.CA.US>]

At 03:27 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Mickey wrote:
> And even in VA, home of the "we love multiple choice," our powers that be
> have recognized they can't assess it all with multiple choice.  So we
> don't assess it.  Only about half the language arts and math Standards are
> actually "assessed" on our state assessments. I haven't counted the
> science ones (although it is likely lower than the LA and math).  ANd
> social studies is still a secret.

Before the creation of STAR, there was a brief period when California had
adopted content standards in core subjects, but had no state test. At that
time, the CTBS test manual identified which standards were addressed (some
to a greater and some to a lesser degree) by the test and which ones they
were totally unable to assess with their technology (multiple choice).

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