U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 8 views
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not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction
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students are given a problem — they could be told, for example, to pretend they are a mayor who needs to reduce a city’s pollution — and must sift through a portfolio of tools and write analytically about how they would use them to solve the problem.
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"(...) not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction (...)"