{"id":5235,"date":"2013-05-20T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2013-05-20T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:48:54","slug":"finding-a-smarter-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/finding-a-smarter-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a smarter balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Smarter-Balence-Cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5315\" title=\"Smarter Balence Cropped\" src=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Smarter-Balence-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Smarter-Balence-Cropped.jpg 650w, https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Smarter-Balence-Cropped-80x31.jpg 80w, https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Smarter-Balence-Cropped-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>The Smarter Balance test is an online test that is being piloted for use during the 2015 school year. The test will be primarily for juniors but sophomores at DHS have piloted the test. This online testing is being piloted to try and replace the MME testing for juniors that is already in effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan is that third day is going to be replaced by online testing so the smarter balance was a practice for doing the MME,\u201d Lori Hallberg, a counselor at DHS said.<\/p>\n<p>The piloting that was taken place this year was looking at the procedure of the test and seeing how it worked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The test] looked at the procedure and made sure schools were ready to handle an online test,\u201d Hallberg said. \u201cNext year will be another practice and I believe the following year it should be for real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the test will primarily be for juniors, students in Northeast Middle School, East Lawn and Woodcrest Elementary Schools have taken the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did it a couple weeks ago with sophomores so I\u2019m not sure if the state is going to replace the M.E.E.P. test that 9th graders do and have it done at 9th grade 10th grade and 11th grade,&#8221; Hallberg said.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple advantages and disadvantages to taking a test online as opposed to a test on paper. Some of the biggest disadvantages are the technical issues that could happen during the test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTest on computers can go wrong. You can lose your data or save to the wrong file.\u201d sophomore Joshua Pilgrim said as he explained his opinion on taking paper tests versus online tests.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the advantages and disadvantages on taking tests online, students share their opinion on the overall test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I can think better on paper,\u201d Pilgrim said.<\/p>\n<p>Some students also don\u2019t see why it\u2019s necessary to take tests on computers as opposed to the normal paper tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me I really don\u2019t think it makes a difference,\u201d said sophomore Conner Wilson. \u201cI really don\u2019t see why it\u2019s such a big deal that they did it on a computer. I don\u2019t understand why they have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though some students don\u2019t see the advantages of taking a test online, it can be helpful for the state of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA higher score on the test shows that students are learning the material they\u2019re supposed to or what the state wants them to learn,\u201d Hallberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smarter Balance test is an online test that is being piloted for use during the 2015 school year. The test will be primarily for juniors but sophomores at DHS have piloted the test. This online testing is being piloted to try and replace the MME testing for juniors that is already in effect. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131,133,489,490],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-news","tag-news","tag-sarah-york","tag-smarter-balance-test","tag-test"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finding a smarter balance - UPDATE ONLINE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/finding-a-smarter-balance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finding a smarter balance - UPDATE ONLINE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Smarter Balance test is an online test that is being piloted for use during the 2015 school year. 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