Developing+an+Action+Plan

=__﻿ __Stan ﻿ dardized Testing: Developing an Action Plan =

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media type="youtube" key="qsbGgdvHTTE" height="390" width="480" === //Supporters:// We **believe** that principals, administrators, school board members, most parents, teachers, and more students will support our action plan because it decreases the amount of standardized testing, will be less stressful, and will allow students to learn more during the school year than they could with more standardized testing. Also, state legislature, governors, and congress will support the action plan because cutting down on standardized testing will cut down on spending. === === //Opposers:// ﻿We believe that people who manufacture and distribute the tests would oppose our action plan because if there is less standardized testing, then those businesses are out of work and cannot make money. Also, we believe that a few students, principals, parents, administrators, and school board members who like standardized testing will oppose our plan. ===

//Convincing the Opposition//
===Persuading those in favor of the PSSA's and ERB's to support our proposal will prove to be a challenge. We will simply have to emphasize, through community meetings and media exposure, that by administering the Keystone Exam as an alternative test, much valuable time will be saved that could be used for educational purposes. Additionally, because the Keystones will also count as a state-wide final, they will be given at the end of the year, providing more time for teachers to cover material and better prepare their students. Less testing also, as stated, will result in less state spending; in general, it is a much less stressful way of measuring schools' progress.===