Pearson lost NY

[NewOrleans]

::cackles::

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/10/pearson-loses-huge-testing-contract-in-new-york-and-gets-more-bad-news/

[thejackpot]

I love it! These tests really need revamping if they want them to hold so much weight.

[laurenpetro]

i thought of you the other day when this was on my local news. i should have posted about it for you. sorry

do you know anything about the replacement company?

[NewOrleans]

Jul 15, 2015 9:05:53 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

i thought of you the other day when this was on my local news. i should have posted about it for you. sorry

do you know anything about the replacement company?

LOL, I forgive you!

This is is all I know about the new company:

The new contract requires Questar to develop tests that can be given on computers and also calls on the company to create more versions of the exams, a shift that should allow them to be shorter. Questions are commonly embedded in standardized tests that do not count toward the final scores, but are instead being tried out for future use. If there are more versions of a test in use, each one can have fewer of these questions.

The state’s announcement emphasized that teachers will play a significant role in developing the tests, which union officials and other education groups praised.

[mmp]

Does Pearson write the NYS Math Regents Exams? I have a million questions.....

[NewOrleans]

Jul 15, 2015 9:14:01 GMT -5 mmp said:

Does Pearson write the NYS Math Regents Exams? I have a million questions.....

No. Teachers actually wrote them for a hundred years, until maybe the 80's!  Now I think the NY state board of ed writes them.

[mmp]

Jul 15, 2015 9:20:28 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Jul 15, 2015 9:14:01 GMT -5 mmp said:

Does Pearson write the NYS Math Regents Exams? I have a million questions.....

No. Teachers actually wrote them for a hundred years, until maybe the 80's!  Now I think the NY state board of ed writes them.

Thanks! I took them in the 80s.

[UMaineTeach]

I got an email from the SPED director saying that ME has pulled out of SBAC. Who knows who/what we will get next.

All is says is, "The Maine DOE is currently working through a competitive process of determining a subsequent method of educational assessment in the content areas of mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy."

[NewOrleans]

Jul 15, 2015 15:48:51 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

I got an email from the SPED director saying that ME has pulled out of SBAC. Who knows who/what we will get next.

All is says is, "The Maine DOE is currently working through a competitive process of determining a subsequent method of educational assessment in the content areas of mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy."

Translation: lowest bid

Or... You'll get PARCC. lol.  But you won't.