And I’m sure there will be absolutely no glitches with this online testing, just as the online AP exams worked perfectly smoothly {sarcasm font needed}.
This is ridiculous. Parents, if your district tries to require this, opt your kids out.
A multi-million dollar corporation wants to make sure Pennsylvania’s children keep getting standardized tests.
Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) and the state Department of Education are providing the optional Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT) assessments for use in students’ homes.
Students are not required to take the CDT in the Commonwealth unless their district decides to give it. The test is encouraged by the state as a way of telling how students will do on the required tests.
With this new option, parents finally can give multiple choice standardized tests to their own children on-line.
Which is kind of hilarious because no one really asked for that.
In fact, many parents, teachers and students breathed a sigh of relief when the requirement that students take high stakes assessments was waived this year nationwide.
With the Coronavirus pandemic closing most school buildings and students transitioning to on-line classes created from scratch by their…
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