Earlier this month, the Arizona Department of Education announced the new k-12 state assessment. The AzMERIT, or Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching, will replace the AIMS exam as of April 2015. The news sparked a heated debate in the education community about whether Arizona’s classrooms were ready for the change. But if we put politics aside, you might be wondering: “What’s really changing?”
So what can you do to help your students prepare for this new, more challenging assessment? If you’ve been teaching to the Arizona College and Career Readiness Standards, you already are! The Arizona Department of Education website offers some additional resources. Consider pushing students to higher levels of DOK (Depth of Knowledge) using this guide: http://www.azed.gov/assessment/files/2014/11/dok-levels.pdf. Change can be scary, but the good news is we might be more prepared than we thought!
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