Accomack schools support computer adaptive test changes

Close to 400,000 elementary and middle school students in Virginia will be taking shorter Standards of Learning math tests this spring.

The state is expanding its use of computer adaptive testing, which means fewer questions for students.

For example, the third grader’s test this year will have thirty-two questions. Last year it had fifty.

The computer adaptive tests for seventh and eighth graders have fifty-three items, rather than last year’s sixty.

Governor Terry McAuliffe says the changes can “reduce stress and frustration for students, teachers, and parents.”

47 ABC reached out to Accomack County Public  Schools and an official says they agree with that belief.