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Education committee discusses state move to adaptive assessment; district preparing for field testing Oct. 27–Nov. 14
Summary
The board’s education committee reviewed district benchmark growth and discussed New Jersey Department of Education plans to switch to an adaptive assessment platform with a fall field-testing window that will affect students in grades 4–12.
At its September meeting the Bound Brook Board of Education’s education committee reported district growth in math and language arts and discussed a statewide change in testing technology that will affect local planning.
Committee chair Mister Dawson summarized district benchmarking that showed growth in foundational literacy, math number sense and secondary literature skills. He said staff are using data to plan small-group instruction and identified areas for continued focus, including measurement and data, fractions, vocabulary and building classroom discourse.
Dawson told the board that the New Jersey Department of Education is changing to an adaptive testing platform for statewide assessments; districts will participate in field testing expected in a tight window from Oct. 27 to Nov. 14 and the change will affect fourth through 12th grades. He said the adaptive design means question difficulty will adjust to student responses and that district staff are still determining logistical details around administration. The committee also reviewed guidance from CUSAC, a monitoring consortium, and reported confidence in the district’s compliance and instructional plans.
Committee members said the testing window overlaps teacher conventions and holidays, creating scheduling challenges the district must address before administration of the new assessments. No board action to change assessment policy was taken at the meeting; the committee discussion was informational and directed staff to continue planning.
