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Sophomore doing work while teachers inform on the upcoming AZmerit testing (Apr. 12-14).

State requires students’ intelligence be compared through stressful testing

Presley Plant, Staff Reporter April 22, 2021

Standardized testing: the measurement of knowledge, by giving students identical questions and grading them in a “standard” manner, making it possible to compare average and higher scores with insufficient...

AzM2 testing does not resolve issues within flawed state test

AzM2 testing does not resolve issues within flawed state test

Isabel Behrendt, Opinions Editor January 16, 2020

The topic of the ethics and usefulness behind standardized tests, where they be state-wide, or nationwide such as the ACT and SAT, has been a debatable topic for decades.  As students take these rigorous...

This year the AzMERIT will be taken the second day back from spring break.

AzMERIT now holds higher importance with changes

Sawyer Del Fosse, Staff Reporter February 7, 2017

In Nov. 2014, the Arizona State Board of Education elected to discard the Arizona Instrument for Measuring Standards (AIMS) test and adopt a new assessment known as the AzMERIT. The Arizona Measurement...

Staff Reporter Aja Diffin.

Third quarter breaks mundane cycle of boredom

Aja Diffin and Sarah Campbell February 4, 2016

Coming back after summer break is often difficult and taxing on students. They must get reaccustomed to a new sleep schedule, as well as adjust to new classrooms with a new mixture of unknown people. Second...

Counselors Kirstin Gregg and Marsie Shealey, with student Tyler Gutti, organize AzMERIT supplies preparing for distribution.

State testing disrupted learning more than helped

Kaitlyn VanKlompenberg, Staff Writer April 23, 2015

Now that the 2015 AzMERIT testing season has come to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect. Or exhale. The term’s circus, zoo, nightmare have bounced around the testing circuit this spring,...

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