CLAS

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CLAS was a standards-based assessment based on Outcomes Based Education principles given in California in the early 1990s.

[edit] Failure

It generated so much outrage that it was terminated in 1995 by the governor after only two years.

[edit] No One Will Succeed

Maureen Dimarco testified to the Washington State Legislature in charge of the WASL that no graders were allowed to give a "4" top score in mathematics in the first year. It was based on open responses scored holistically, so that the correct answer to how share 5 apples among 4 people might be to give the 5th to a food bank.

[edit] Minority Performance

Minorities scored even lower than on standardized tests, huge numbers scored in the lowest categories, as open response questions with more than one answer proved to be even more difficult than multiple choice problems.

[edit] Replacement

It has been since been replaced by STAR which is a testing system based on traditional rigorous academic standards which largely discards the theory of outcome-based education which was widely rejected by the late 1990s in the United States.