...your students the local high school for a timed test. At the new test site, six students suddenly refuse to take the test and begin crying, while simultaneously more than half of the students discover they have trouble reaching the keyboards. These scenarios demonstrate that there are many risks in using computers to test students. However, thinking ahead about the needs of students, the testing site and the system being implemented limits the potential for problems to arise during testing.

NCLB Guidelines

Though accountability measures have been in place since the inception of education in America, educators have never before been under such highly refined scrutiny or systematic evaluation of teaching practices as they are now. Concurrently, an increased reliance on technology, the Internet and mass media has yielded an ever-increasingly fast-paced American culture.

To make matters seem worse, the No Child Left Behind Act requires that schools close achievement gaps much faster than before. As a result,...

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