Test Designers Seek Help of Students, One at a Time

Test Designers Seek Help of Students, One at a Time

Test Development Assistant Elena Saavedra, right, of the American Institutes for Research, works with 12-year-old Andrea Guevara in Waterbury, Conn. The Dec. 3 session was one of more than 900 cognitive labs with students nationwide to compile data that will help design a common-core assessment for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
—Emile Wamsteker for Education Week
By Catherine Gewertz
Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.
Waterbury, Conn.

Pondering a math problem while she swings her sneakered feet from a chair, 12-year-old Andrea Guevara is helping researchers design an assessment that will shape the learning of 19 million students.

The 8th grader, who came to the United States from Ecuador three years ago, is trying out two ways of providing English-language support on a computer-based test. First, she does a few problems that display Spanish translations of the English instructions. Then she tries a few written only in English, but with pop-up windows that open on the screen and show translations of unfamiliar words.

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