Gov. Brown signs bill ending STAR testing
It's official. California is saying goodbye to the STAR — State Testing and Reporting — assessments, ending the way students have taken standardized tests in California since 1999, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday.
The new assessments — The Common Core State Standards — have been in the planning for years and are currently in its first and second year of implementation within local school districts.
With Common Core standards, which will replace the California State Standards, students will no longer be able to guess correct answers through multiple choice questions. The new tests will require critical thinking and problem solving essays. The fill-in-the-bubble sheets will also disappear as the test is taken on computers.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson congratulated Governor Jerry Brown and the State Legislature for their work to sweep away outdated tests in favor of modern, computer-based assessments that will measure student readiness for the challenges of college and the workplace.
Torlakson hailed the Governor’s signing today of Assembly Bill 484, the State Superintendent’s sponsored legislation to remake the state’s student assessment system to reflect the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
“These new assessments represent a challenge for our education system—but a lifetime of opportunity for students,” Torlakson said. “As a teacher, I’m thrilled to see our state and our schools once again leading the way.”
The new law suspends most Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) assessments for the current school year, allowing school districts to prepare for and transition to the new California Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress assessments, which are slated for administration statewide in the 2014-15 school year.
The new assessments will be computer-based, allowing for a much broader range of test questions than the multiple-choice exams given under STAR. As a result, the new assessments are expected to emphasize critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving, modeling the kind of teaching and learning needed to prepare all students for the demands of college and the modern workplace.
California is one of 45 states, the District of Columbia, and three territories that formally have adopted the CCSS for mathematics and English
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