I am not an advocate of all the many standardized tests and practice tests that we are required by our district to administer throughout the year. For example, the assessment my students took yesterday and today was forty hard questions based on very dense reading passages. Taking on average over an hour and a half to complete, it is also designed so that the kids get about half of the answers wrong, which seems a little soul-crushing to me.
But as long as I could ignore the glazed eyes, heavy sighs, and frequent bathroom breaks, it sure was nice to get all that grading and planning done as they struggled through.
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