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A gap still exists, but city students are inching closer to their suburban counterparts in meeting state education goals, according to scores released today on the 1997 mastery test.
In a sequential mastery test (SMT), the decision of interest is to classify a student as a master or a nonmaster, or to continue testing and administering another random item.
Until today, the correct answer did not matter to grade school students taking the Connecticut Mastery Test, because even though the test has asked such questions since its inception in 1986, state education officials have never counted the answers.
Though most other states, including New York and New Jersey, test student writing skills and grammar with a combination of essay and multiple-choice questions, many of those tests were modeled on the Connecticut Mastery Test, said Wayne Martin, a director at the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, which represents state education commissioners.
Namely the tests used are the Mental Attributes Profiling System (MAPS) [ 15], the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) [ 3], the rapid naming test developed by Wimmer et. al. [ 13], and Woodcock's Reading Mastery Test [ 14].
Again, the 2007 Connecticut Mastery Test scores are higher, but not by much.
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The Connecticut Mastery Tests were given in September, and teachers needed as much time as possible to prepare students.
On Connecticut Mastery Tests last year, 95 percent of third-graders met standards in math, 88 percent in reading and 98 percent in writing.
On state Mastery Tests last year, 82percentt of fourth-graders demonstrated proficiency in math, 70percentt in reading and 85percentt in writing, versus 85, 66 and 86 statewide.
On Connecticut Mastery Tests in 2008, 85.5percentt of eighth-graders met goals in reading, 87.6 in writing and 83.4 in math, versus 64.9, 63.4 and 61 statewide.
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