Word: mcas
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...future, the numbers school officials are looking at will be on a different scale--1999 is the last year Massachusetts will give the Iowa reading test. Students will instead take a version of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and third-graders will be given trial MCAS questions next spring before the test is launched...
...Alessandro said she hopes students will shine just as brightly on the MCAS tests, despite poor showings in the past. On the May 1998 tests, Cambridge ranked 168 out of 208 school districts and pulled in its worst scores in the fourth-grade language arts test, with 76 percent of students below the "proficient" mark...
...think that you have to set into place a system that's going to deal with it," he says. "We have to do better on MCAS testing...
Although by no means the worst in the state, scaled scores for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test administered in 1997 put Cambridge at just below the 50th percentile...
...really think that MCAS told us much that we didn't really know before," she adds...