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Nashville, TN<\/strong> – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced several new steps today to improve the state\u2019s TNReady student assessment, including recompeting the state\u2019s current testing vendor contract.<\/p>\n![\"Additional](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/School-Education.jpg\" "\\"Additional")
<\/a>Additional steps include refining current Questar contract, revising timeline for online testing, engaging more teachers<\/p><\/div>\n
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These improvements are being made after ongoing conversations with teachers, parents, education leaders, and policy-makers over the past several weeks and are aimed at addressing a number of areas of concern.<\/p>\n
The multi-faceted changes announced today will immediately improve the state assessment\u2014TNReady\u2014and establish a longer-term framework for success.<\/p>\n
The steps being taken to improve TNReady include:<\/h3>\n\n- Releasing a new Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify the assessment vendor or vendors that can successfully administer the state test in 2019-20 and beyond<\/li>\n
- Amending the state\u2019s current contract and relationship with Questar to improve the assessment experience in 2018-19<\/li>\n
- Adjusting the pace of the state\u2019s transition to online testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
These steps complement additional actions already in the works, including eliminating two TNReady end-of-course exams, eliminating the March stand-alone field test for the next two years, simplifying and streamlining test administration, bringing in a third party to perform an independent review of Questar\u2019s technological capabilities, improving customer service, and engaging dozens of additional Tennessee teachers, content experts, and testing coordinators to look at every part of our state testing program.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeachers, students and families deserve a testing process they can have confidence in, and we are doing everything possible to meet that responsibility,\u201d Commissioner McQueen said. \u201cWe are always committed to listening and improving, and we\u2019ll continue to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n
TNReady is a high-quality assessment that is aligned to Tennessee\u2019s rigorous academic expectations. In May, a national study recognized Tennessee as the No. 1 state in the country for improvement in the quality of its academic standards, going from an \u201cF\u201d rating in 2007 to an \u201cA\u201d in 2017. TNReady is designed to measure those standards, and it has a variety of different types of questions to look for the depth of students\u2019 knowledge. All of those aspects of the test will not change, but the RFP process will better ensure that students can take TNReady seamlessly and without disruption. <\/p>\n
Further details about the announcement today can be found in the fact sheet,<\/a> which is also available on our website. The state is continuing to identify other areas of improvement, including potential test reductions, and will share more information as those decisions are made. More information about TNReady and the state\u2019s assessment program is posted on www.TNReady.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Department of Education Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced several new steps today to improve the state\u2019s TNReady student assessment, including recompeting the state\u2019s current testing vendor contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9806,284,261,886,10489],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-candice-mcqueen","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-education","tag-tnready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
These steps complement additional actions already in the works, including eliminating two TNReady end-of-course exams, eliminating the March stand-alone field test for the next two years, simplifying and streamlining test administration, bringing in a third party to perform an independent review of Questar\u2019s technological capabilities, improving customer service, and engaging dozens of additional Tennessee teachers, content experts, and testing coordinators to look at every part of our state testing program.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeachers, students and families deserve a testing process they can have confidence in, and we are doing everything possible to meet that responsibility,\u201d Commissioner McQueen said. \u201cWe are always committed to listening and improving, and we\u2019ll continue to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n
TNReady is a high-quality assessment that is aligned to Tennessee\u2019s rigorous academic expectations. In May, a national study recognized Tennessee as the No. 1 state in the country for improvement in the quality of its academic standards, going from an \u201cF\u201d rating in 2007 to an \u201cA\u201d in 2017. TNReady is designed to measure those standards, and it has a variety of different types of questions to look for the depth of students\u2019 knowledge. All of those aspects of the test will not change, but the RFP process will better ensure that students can take TNReady seamlessly and without disruption. <\/p>\n
Further details about the announcement today can be found in the fact sheet,<\/a> which is also available on our website. The state is continuing to identify other areas of improvement, including potential test reductions, and will share more information as those decisions are made. More information about TNReady and the state\u2019s assessment program is posted on www.TNReady.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennessee Department of Education Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced several new steps today to improve the state\u2019s TNReady student assessment, including recompeting the state\u2019s current testing vendor contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9806,284,261,886,10489],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-candice-mcqueen","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-education","tag-tnready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}