Online Testing Coming to NJ Schools
Some administrators uneasy about 2014-15 deadline
Nearly 1 million New Jersey students will take their annual state math and language exams online by the spring of 2015, NJ Spotlight reports. The testing — which is being developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) — is about to go through its first pilot evaluations in about a dozen districts. The state Department of Education has started to collect information from districts as to what they need in terms of technology, from software and high-speed connections to the number of available workstations or tablets. State officials say it shouldn’t be too big a lift, with many schools already far along in their technology plan and expected to easily meet the requirements. But not all teachers and …
