There were 21 responses to this week’s Tele-Talk question: “How important do you think the state of New Hampshire’s standardized test scores are?”
If standardized tests are not a competent measure of knowledge, I’d like a clear explanation of what metric we are using to assess competency, what the expected result is, and what our actual results are. Chris Perley
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