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Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSA)
PSSAs are state assessments that all public schools in the State of Pennsylvania must participate in. The assessments are administered to grades 3rd through 8th. All testing grades take part in Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) assessments while grades 4th and 8th only take Science PSSAs. Although there are no time limitations Mathematics and ELA assessments take 3-4 hours and Science Assessments take about 2-4 hours.
Based on the test results and reflection of our experience with previous year tests we decided to administer Mathematics PSSAs on paper and the other assessments online. Scheduling the tests typically is an issue with so many different grades being tested and with a limited

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