The Montana Office of Public Instruction is preparing to expand an experimental student testing model to all elementary and middle schools this fall. The change comes after several school districts participated in two years of piloting the new approach to testing.
at Missoula ’s Hellgate Elementary School District. Gone were the back-to-back weeks of summative assessments students and teachers had grown accustomed to. Instead, the nine months leading up to this week’s final hours of instruction had been sprinkled with scaled-down tests designed to incrementally gauge students’ competence in math and reading.
All Montana public school students in grades 3 through 8 will soon follow the example set by Hellgate and roughly five dozen other districts across the state. After two years ofin those districts, the Office of Public Instruction is now preparing for a statewide rollout of the model this fall.
State and local education officials have been gearing up for the switch for months, with OPI staff offering regular updates to the Montana Board of Public Education and fielding questions about continued modifications. The U.S.
“The very, very end of this is to have the student recognize what they learned and how they learned it, because that assessment is the how, right?” Arntzen said. “But then also for the student, if the student will own their own learning, then they will attend school more, they will be attentive to school because they’ll recognize growth themselves. It’s not the adult telling them, it’s the student owning their learning with the help of that mentor, that teacher.
about test length, student fatigue and whether teachers are truly receiving testlet results in a timely enough fashion. Laurie Barron, superintendent of the Evergreen School District in Kalispell, told board members that while her staff is “wholly committed” to the pilot, the initiative has felt “extremely rushed” since its inception in 2022.
“We’ve all said for quite a while that we really need to improve this assessment system,” Murgel said. “Here’s an opportunity.”
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