Sentences with phrase «old bubble tests»
Administered online, PARCC is designed to require more writing and critical thinking than the old bubble tests.
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The learning lab is brilliantly designed, it looks just like an old fashioned science lab, full of curiosities from brightly coloured, bubbling test tubes to Professor Blasts rather unusual looking pet.
Yes the tests are harder, but the state's old assessments were not accurately depicting achievement expectations and were just multiple choice bubble tests.
Virtually all are replacing their old fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills, tests that contributed to both low expectations for student learning and bad teaching practices, with significantly stronger assessments.
«One - shot, year - end bubble tests administered on a single day, too often lead to a dummying down of curriculum,» Duncan said of the old state tests.
In response to such concerns, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, «We will never ask three - year - olds to take bubble tests... that would just be ludicrous.»
When my six year old regularly bubbles in her reading test each week (from a cc - aligned, very expensive new textbook), her teacher loses valuable time in which she could be teaching first graders to READ.
The schools had been using old multiple - choice bubble tests, similar to the old models of Wisconsin's state assessment.