Testing, your Child, and the System

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Handouts
	Why Test Students?
	What Parents Should Know About Test Types
	Effects of State Testing
	Helping Your Child Perform Well on Tests
	Test Taking
	What Parents Should Know About Test Accuracy and Use
	Testing Students with Learning Disabilities
	Using Student Tests to Measure Teacher Quality
	Making Sense of Test Scores
	Assessing Your Coaching Skills
	Ways to Help Your Child Achieve High Standards for His/Her Work
	What Are “Multiple Intelligences?”
	Multiple Intelligences and Your Children
	No Child Left Behind

Testing, your Child, and the System

Description
The presenter gives an overview of the national, state, and district-level large-scale assessments that relate to their children. Then small groups of participants sort strips of paper listing "Things Parents Can Do" according to whether the action could have impact at the level of helping their own child, at the level of improving the assessment system in general, or both. This activity results in participants understanding a little bit about the large-scale assessments that impact their own children, and some possible actions they could take to support their own child and improve assessment systems.

Use
Can stand-alone or serve as follow-up to any of the standardized testing activities.