The MEAP is indeed being replaced by a computer-adaptive test very similar to the NWEA, within the next two years: [link].

There was recent legislative movement to even move that timeline up further.

I think we need to look seriously at what cuts will do the *least* amount of harm, and I believe in this case, it’s obvious. Our kids are so over-tested, and so much of the testing is redundant, anyway. If a computer adaptive test is the way to go, then fine. But if it’s going to be mandated anyway, we should stop putting all these resources into figuring out how to implement a test that we’ll be scrapping in a year anyway. That test took a ridiculous amount of class instruction time, teacher time, computer time — and we took it three times a year, including kindergarteners. The teachers I’ve spoken to found nothing particularly new from the results that they didn’t already know about their students.

Time to cut our losses on this one.