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Common-Core Tests to Take Up to 10 Hours
Common-Core Tests to Take Up to 10 Hours
Districts will get 20 days to administer
New tests being designed for students in nearly half the states will take eight to 10 hours, depending on grade level, according to guidance released last week.
The new information comes from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, one of the two big groups of states that are building tests in mathematics and English/language arts for the Common Core State Standards.
The guidance answers one of the big questions that had been hanging over the tests: Given their promises to measure students' skills in a deeper, more nuanced way, partly through the use of extended performance tasks, just how long will the tests take?
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