UpSmart ® is a highly
adaptive test readiness program designed to help students in grades 6 — 8 demonstrate standards mastery in math and ELA.
Not exact matches
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) are creating computer -
adaptive exams that will offer customized questions based on student responses, which will measure what students do and do not know more efficiently and accurately than standardized
tests have in the past.
The Smarter Balanced
adaptive test aims to provide educators with more authentic indicators of their students» college and career
readiness, but some educators have found the
test's technology to be limiting and difficult; EdTech leader
The Smarter Balanced
adaptive test aims to provide educators with more authentic indicators of their students» college and career
readiness, but some educators have found the
test's technology to be limiting and difficult; EdTech leader Steven Rasmussen even went so far as to say, «Not one of the practice and training
test items is improved through the use of technology... The primitive software used only makes it more difficult for students and reduces the reliability of the resulting scores.»
Although the computer -
adaptive Smarter Balanced Assessment remains unproven and developmentally - inappropriate, proponents of the controversial
test have been unable to demonstrate that SBAC is a psychometrically valid or reliable measure of student academic progress, let alone college - and career -
readiness.