Parents have mixed feelings about student testing, according to a survey released this week.

While they appear to like formative and interim assessments that are administered during the school year to gauge how well students are “getting it,” they aren’t big fans of summative tests taken at the end of the year to see how much students learned.

Education Week reports.

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