NJ SPOTLIGHT - PARCC EXAM THIS YEAR WILL INCLUDE ADDITIONAL SECTION OF PRACTICE QUESTIONS…One-third of school districts must take part in field trials of new questions, taking up as much as two extra hours of testing time   ‘As statewide PARCC testing starts up again this spring, there will be a new wrinkle for scores of districts that will need to take part in nearly two hours of so-called field testing of practice questions. Districts were alerted this week that a third of them will be required to participate in what is a common practice with standardized testing. Different questions and formats are tried out before they are actually used…’

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JOHN MOONEY | FEBRUARY 25, 2016