Changes will take place during the 2014-2015 school year.
Paper and pencil for statewide tests will soon be a thing of the past for Michigan students as they prepare to take a new online assessment detailed during a roundtable Monday by the Michigan Department of Education. The exam will replace the standardized MEAP and MME assessments in math, reading and writing, beginning during the 2014-2015 school year. The MEAP and MME assessments will still be given in science and social studies. But unlike the tests students are used to, the new statewide exam will not have a common set of questions. Subsequent questions will be determined based on how a student answers the previous one. A correct answer yields a harder one. An incorrect responce yields an easier question. The goal is to have students …
The new online assessment will replace the MEAP and MME tests in math, reading and writing beginning during the 2014-15 school year.
Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students throughout Michigan will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. The test replaces the Michigan Merit Exam (MME) and the Michigan Educational Assessment Progam (MEAP) in all subjects except social science and science. Called Smarter Balanced, the exam was produced by The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a state-led effort to provide consistent and comparable standards, aligned to the Common Core State Standards, in English language arts, literacy and mathematics. Smarter Balanced recently released a Technology Readiness Tool for districts to measure readiness to move to an online assessment program. Martineau said only about 6 percent of districts have taken …
Results affect federal aid for Plymouth-Canton Community, Van Buren Public, Wayne-Westland and charter schools.
The report cards issued by Michigan Department of Education to Canton schools are, at best, imperfect. Most of Plymouth-Canton Community Schools receive an A from the state's Adequate Yearly Progress report. But three, Plymouth and Salem high schools and Starkweather, the district's alternative high school, each received Bs. Adequate Yearly Progress grades measure how well students score on English and math tests given through the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (given to younger students) and the Michigan Merit Examination, (for high school students), as well as graduation rates and attendance records. Van Buren Public Schools received As with the exception of Rawsonville Elementary and South Middle School, which received Bs. …
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Sarah O'Brien
12:14 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It would be great if the district actually used the scores to improve education, but they don't seem to. Everyone seems content with the status quo of overtesting. Our students are not learning better or given more enrichment. It is test after test. more ›