This year we saw a different approach to state testing. 

“We’re doing one day where we are trying to get all the students at the same time, which is going to be much easier for teachers,” principal Caludia Cooper said.

“The 10th graders are going to be in the gym areas, the main gym, the auxiliary gym and the mezzanine for the most part, and they will test all day. And then 11th graders are going to go to math or science teacher’s classes, and they’re going to test in the morning and then they will have alternate classes in the afternoon,” assessments coordinator Amanda Roberts said.

State testing being done this way will change the time we are testing to one day instead of six weeks. 

“It’s always been a kind of a pain for English department because there’s always our job to get the testing done. The retesting, done and then follow up with students didn’t quite finish. This way. One shop you lose one day, the rest of the years are perfectly fine,” English teacher John Sobonya said.

“I think it’s great that we’re trying something different. We’ll know more afterwards on how successful it is. But it’s an opportunity knock everything out in one day,” math teacher Tom Noonan said.

With all the testing being done in one day, there is bound to be issues.  

“The internet server, so we’re that will be one test to see if it actually holds that many students and that was able to test that day. Also, how many students come that day? whether or not we have to extend out the testing longer than what I thought we would if we can just get most students to come that day and we don’t have to do a lot of retesting,” Cooper said.

Since everything went smoothly, look for state testing to be done this way in the future.