And citing the cost of new tests requiring more writing and a significant online component, Georgia and Oklahoma have withdrawn from a consortium developing exams based on the standards.
Only 15 states have annual testing; the rest will have to develop additional exams over the next few years.
Of course, the tests have to be age-appropriate, Professor Cizek notes, and the Race to the Top program includes funds for research to develop new exams.
The State Board of Regents is also trying to develop assessment exams for this type of school, perhaps one that could be substituted for one of the usual Regents tests.
The state's biggest standardized test, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, will be used for some grades and subjects, but districts must develop separate exams for all other subjects in each grade, an expensive undertaking.
The group also got Samsung, the Korean electronics corporation, to pay $500,000 to the College Board to help develop the exam.
As we develop our exam analysis tool further, we plan to provide more scaffolding to the students in the independent analysis assignment to determine whether the effectiveness can be improved.
"Any one test isn't going to be a perfect predictor," agrees psychologist Matthew Nock of Harvard University, an expert in developing behavioral exams to predict suicide.
EB assisted in study design and writing the manuscript, developed the exams and technology scale, and supervised data collection.
Prep Zone, a test-prep company founded by two Insead alumni, developed the exam for Insead.
