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The Digital SHSAT, Let's talk, AMA, PART 1 January 7, 2025
What?
Since at least 2023, the DOE has been bringing a digital SHSAT to fruition.
Funding was approved in Dec 2024.
Therefore, the SHSAT will be going digital!
When?
The SHSAT will be going digital beginning in Fall 2025.
What does this mean?
The exam will be taken on a computer.
How?
Details on exactly how it will work are still forthcoming.
However, it will be rolled out in multiple steps.
Initially it will be computer-based.
Eventually, it will be fitted with an adaptive model.
What will change?
As with the how, details are still forthcoming.
Why?
Many exams are going digital.
Some exams have been digital for decades.
A shorter exam can be used to establish scores.
Technically, easier to grade.
Computer based tools can be made available.
What won't change?
Adherence to NY grade level standards.
The SHSAT will remain a challenging exam.
Student selection will be rank-ordered; a higher rank is still a higher rank.
Scrap paper will still be available.
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The Digital SHSAT, What we know, What's misinformation, PART 2 January 8, 2025
"digital exam" -- on a computer
This is not a PBE (paper based exam) cut and pasted on the screen
"adaptive" -- questions will be adaptive at some level based on how the student is doing.
But we don't know HOW yet.
The test will be adaptive next year.
No, it'll be digital first.
On a PBE you can go to any question or section, and then come back to a question later.
This is NOT always true.
The above capability would be gone with an adaptive model.
The idea of "checking your work" would be eliminated
Digital or adaptive does not mean that.
We need the details first.
On the MAP tests you can't go back.
BUT on other ones you can.
Digital state exams are now "rolling out" online.
The SAT is digital and adaptive now, and the ACT following. It allows question transversal.
Digital tests are pretty difficult compared to paper ones.
mmm, what?
--> "Fear of the unknown"
The sky did not fall.
Digital exams have been around for decades.
I even wrote an digitl exam system 40 years ago.
PBE are easier to annotate.
Maybe.
Digital can have:
tools
shorter passages
inline questions
The DOE won't have proper equipment
The computers can't be Chromebooks, old or new.
It probably wont even load.
If it does it'll be too slow
What if the battery goes low?
Um, what?
A digital exam will lead to students cheating
Students can just search for answers.
Student can always cheat, even with paper
The devices will be DOE supplied.
Most likely will lock the screen.
Scores will get too high from cheating.
????
A digital exam will save time from having to bubble
Neither here nor there.
They'll be no way to do math problems on the screen.
Scrap paper will be provided
Equation editor, etc., but not a calculator.
IEP and 504 accommodations will allow pencil and paper tests
But also some accommodations available online too
