Monday, March 4, 2013
Hartland High School's schedule for ACT, MME, PLAN, and EXPLORE testing.
It is time for Hartland High School's annual testing process. During the week of March 5 - 7, there will be abbreviated school hours to accommodate our students through this process. Tuesday, March 5 Breakfast will be available for purchase in the morning. School lunch will not be available. Wednesday, March 6 Breakfast will be available for purchase in the morning and lunch for sophomores only will be available in the cafeteria. Thursday, March 7 Juniors will be able to leave school following testing. There will be a normal bus schedule for juniors and freshmen in the morning and a four-hour delayed schedule for 10th and 12th grade students. Breakfast will be available for purchase in the morning and lunch for freshmen only will be …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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 …
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 ›