The Mercury News – Margaret Lavin
“Last Spring, 3.2 million students in California (grades 3-8 and 11) took the new, computerized California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) tests, and the results of these new online assessments have been released by the California Department of Education. Along with the test results come questions of its validity. For example, how can standardization be assumed when students are taking tests on different technological tools? Also, fairness comes into play when many students do not have access at home to the technology tools they are being tested on in school, and some districts do not have the same technology resources as others.”(more)