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Released (today) Thursday, the new time projections are higher than the estimates that PARCC issued in March of 2013: eight to 10 hours of testing. But that’s because the earlier figures reflected something different: the amount of time “typical” students would need to complete the English/language arts and mathematics tests.
The new numbers, informed by data from last spring’s field test of 1 million students, reflect the amounts of time needed to allow “virtually all” students to finish the tests.
The field tests showed that 75 percent of students finished the tests in 6½ to 7½ hours, PARCC officials said. But to facilitate “virtually all” students completing the tests, PARCC is instructing schools to allot 9¾ hours to 11¼ hours for the first operational assessment in the spring of 2015…
Here are the amounts of time PARCC projects will be needed for “virtually all” students to complete the tests:
Grade 3:
English/language arts: 4¾ hours
Math: 5 hours
Total: 9 ¾ hours
Grades 4-5:
English/language arts: 5 hours
Math: 5 hours
Total: 10 hours
Grades 6-8:
English/language arts: 5 ¾ hours
Math: 5 hours
Total: 10 ¾ hours
Grades 9-11:
English/language arts: 5¾ hours
Math (Algebra I, Geometry, Integrated Math 1 or Integrated Math 2): 5 ⅓ hours
Math (Algebra II or Integrated Math 3): 5 ½ hours
Total: 11 to 11¼ hours
The other federally funded consortium, Smarter Balanced, has not made any adjustments to its projected testing times in the wake of its field-testing experiences. The Smarter Balanced assessments are still projected to take seven to 8 ½ hours, depending on grade level, as the consortium announced in November 2012. To produce those time estimates, the consortium scaled back the number of performance tasks in the test to one in mathematics and one in English/language arts. Smarter Balanced’s original design was projected to take students 10 ½ hours or more to complete.
Even as the time estimates for PARCC and Smarter Balanced exceed what many states currently require for their state exams…
Please call Greg Lavelle and thank him from the bottom of your heart….
Phone: (302) 478-6128
They don’t say they are Koch ads. And they don’t say anything really… Just moan and groan about nothing….
One of the statements being made by a senior women, is “and they promised us we could keep our own insurance, well you know how that goes.”
Whoa, Back up old lady. The fact is, that you can keep your own insurance if you wish. Not only was that extended originally, but it was extended again. If you want your crappy piss poor insurance policy, you can keep your crappy piss poor insurance policy, even though it gouges you in they eye and pays nothing if you go blind.
Those type of policies should be illegal… The only reason they aren’t, is because in order to fill the spirit of a promise, they are grandfathered into existence despite the fact they hurt everyone who has them…. Hopefully those people will grow some brains and get a cheaper policy that covers them far better… But if they are adamant in their stupidity, well, a promise is a promise. They can keep them….
But what is funny, it that this old senior woman, jumps into minimum wage…. Raising the minimum wage will hurt women …..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Even demented old seniors in nursing homes know that making $10.10 for every hour in a forty hour week, is better than making $7.25 dollars an hour in a forty hour week… It doesn’t matter if you are a man, or a woman… It is $2.85 dollars an hour better or $114 dollars a week, better, or $456 dollars a month better….
That will hurt women the Koch Brothers say….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
The only thing stupider than a Koch Brother is someone who actually believes them…..
Hello. Rick Jensen?
If Delaware has 11,000 workers making at or below minimum wage, and all of those theoritically were given a $450 monthly raise, the spending power of the Delaware economy would jump $5 million dollars a month…
If the Koch’s owned half the wealth, that means this awesome jump in the economy is $2.5 million a month out of their own pocket…. No wonder they are throwing $6,000 at WDEL to try to trick you into calling for NOT improving our economy.…
If you liked Ronald Reagan, you need to switch to the Democratic Party, now!
Now, if only Rick Jensen was as smart as you are…. 😦
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