Allow ESTIMATED scores for kids taking 2+hours on the Reading Growth test
Some students are taking an incredibly long time on the Reading Growth test. They are carefully reading all the questions, getting them right, and then getting an even longer passage. They are taking up to 3 hours to finish the test. We can't test them for that long, but we also don't want them to just lose all their hard work if we stop before they get a score. Can you PLEASE offer the option at admin discretion to just get an estimated score after a certain amount of time spent on the test???
Sarah Outterson-Murphy
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Mike L. Miller commented
I was able to look over a student's shoulder this testing session and saw, to my amazement, that the student was not at all limited by their own inattentiveness or indecisiveness or anything like that. The pace of the TTS reader was the issue. This student takes four class periods to complete the test, completing 7-12 questions each 45 minutes, and I watched their cursor in constant motion (meaning the TTS reader is reading) for the entire period they were testing. The longest I saw it stop for was about 10 seconds while the student chose an answer after it finished reading the last answer choice for a question. The test needs to be shorter and/or offer estimated scores for students who don't finish, and the TTS reader needs to offer variable speeds.