Several states have already started field testing the new Common Core computer-based assessments. And some of those tests didn’t go quite as smoothly as people had hoped. According to Education Week, there were problems with testing in Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Thousands of students experienced slow loading times of test questions, students were closed [...]
StateImpact is answering reader-submitted questions about the Common Core, a new set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do in math and English at each grade level. Ohio is one of 45 states that have fully adopted the Common Core. Today, we answer a question about college admissions. The Common Core is supposed to raise expectations [...]
erskinelibrary / Flickr Across all grades, Ohio students will spend an additional 49 hours a year taking standardized tests starting in 2014-15. But the Ohio Department of Education says the way the tests will be administered will actually be less disruptive than the state’s current testing system. “Even though there may be more hours of testing, we [...]
Jeff Kubina / Flickr As some states waver in their commitments to the Common Core, Ohio is standing firm. The Common Core is a shared a set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do in math and English at each grade level. All Ohio schools are supposed to be teaching [...]
Fred Dufour / AFP/Getty Images The iPad is becoming one of the most popular purchases in the world of educational technology. Schools are using the tablets to teach the principles of physics, get students excited about spelling, and help students collaborate on class projects. Now some schools plan to use iPads to administer state tests which soon [...]
PARCC hasn’t decided if iPads will work for taking the tests. That news sparked an understandable general murmur from the crowd, especially from staff from districts that recently invested in sets of iPads.
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