Virginia Among First States To Transition To Online Assessments

The Washington Post (5/21, Chandler) reports that Virginia is transitioning its Standards of Learning assessments to digital format this year, making it “one of the only states to wholly abandon the nearly ubiquitous paper-and-pencil bubble sheets.” The Post points out that this makes Virginia a “model” for states that adopted the Common Core Standards, noting that those “states are scrambling to meet a fast-approaching deadline to implement corresponding online tests.”