«And so I would very much like the academy or somebody — because somebody's got to do this — to
take advantage
of the fact that we have all these states doing
different experiments and
take, for example, three or four states with very
different assessments for science, Maryland would be one, and then actually do some research on what's the effect
of teaching and learning
of these
different kinds of tests.»
The SBAC use
of technology as the
testing format is inequitable because children use
different kinds of devices to
take the
tests, some
of which are more user friendly than others, and the children vary greatly in their familiarity with technology.