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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...
...feeling that the Iowa could be a predictor of how well we do on the MCAS," she said...
...With MCAS to come and room for improvement still remaining, educators emphasized that they don't use standardized tests as the sole measure of the health of a school system...
...really think that MCAS told us much that we didn't really know before," she adds...