Testing Standards Concerning for the Future
New school tests called excessive
BY KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Oklahoma schools and students will be in a “perpetual state of testing” when new K-12 standardized testing begins in 2014-15, educators say.
Through written guidance sent to schools last week, school administrators learned that all third- to 11th-grade students will take nine online tests – each around an hour in length – for English and math under the new testing system.
Five of the nine will be in English, and four will be in math. Those tests will replace the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests in the two subjects. Students now take one test in English and one in math.
“Not only are the technology demands difficult to meet, the actual testing requirements are excessive,” said Jenks Middle School Principal Rob Miller. The additional tests are on top of those students must take in other subjects.