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Experts see hurdles ahead for Common Core tests
- 04-12-2011
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By Sarah D. Sparks/Education Week
As America’s “next-generation” assessments for common core academic subjects begin to take shape through two state consortia projects, researchers and test developers alike are beginning to worry that expectations for the tests may outpace states’ technology and budgets. Michigan and Louisiana education officials and leaders of the two consortia tasked with developing the new assessments—the 31-state SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, or SBAC, and the 26-state Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC—discussed challenges to the tests at a panel here at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. (more...)
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