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Will state lighten school test load?
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Do parents get the scores of their children, or are the tests for looking at district-wide scores? I put my child in private school and we get his SAT scores each year. We have found that to be helpful, but all the other stuff does nothing for us.
Currently in the elementary schools in the fall, we do the Iowa and DRA (reading). In January we do the DRA again, which takes several weeks to complete as it has to be done individually. In the spring we have an additional Iowa 3rd grade reading, a third DRA test, the 6th grade Direct Writing test and three UPASS tests mandated by the legislature, and the MARS math test. The Iowa and the UPASS take a full week.
I don't think parents WANT all that much testing and the time it takes away from instruction. The tests in the texts (if they are decent texts, not Investigations!) are more helpful anyway to both parents and teachers.
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