The
studies show that PARCC is a high quality assessment, aligns to state learning standards, predicts college readiness, compares well to NAEP performance, is
endorsed by the country's top educators, and gives students with disabilities and English learners more tools and access to the test than
previous tests.
Watts et al 2012 has employed a new methodology for station siting, pioneered
by Michel Leroy of METEOFrance in 2010, in the paper Leroy 2010, and
endorsed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation (CIMO - XV, 2010) Fifteenth session, in September 2010 as a WMO - ISO standard, making it suitable for reevaluating
previous studies on the issue of station siting.