A fifth-grade teacher at a third school said that of her 18 pupils, only 2 met the state's reading goal in fourth-grade mastery tests.
So several seminars took the state's mastery tests, widely seen as models for testing what children should know, as their starting point.
A different company will supply, score and analyze the mastery tests given to students in the state.
Students, too, have been assessed through a program of mastery tests, which gauge their proficiency in the fourth, six, and eighth grades.
Using Bayesian decision theory to design a computerized mastery test.
Connecticut imposed statewide mastery tests, and it reported the results district by district.
Scores on Connecticut's statewide mastery tests are declining.
We always analyze the data that we obtain from the mastery tests.
We design our curriculum based on objectives that we set which line up with the mastery test.
The mastery tests are given each September to about 110,000 students.