Numerous studies have shown that students do better on paper and pencil tests than on computer tests. For the record, the tests are a massive waste of time. But students often get lost online. They scroll up and down. They lose their place and their train of thought. Online testing is so flawed as to be useless.
Some states, like Tennessee, have had computer testing ruin the whole testing process.
Yet MaryEllen Elia clings ferociously to computer testing because she just plain loves it. She believes in computer testing no matter how much it fails.
Many know that it wastes students’ time, steals instructional time, and wastes millions of dollars.
Wise parents Opt Out.
Computer testing is so yesterday.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Very frustrating. Use a damn pencil.
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Why pencils are bad
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It would be interesting to know now much money was spent on testing before the CCSS tests were introduced. New York required standardized tests before the CCSS tests. Districts gave tests in order to qualify for Title 1 funding. My district gave the CAT tests for many years. Then, it switched to the Terra Nova. These were bubble tests, but students worked from testing booklets which were more user friendly than on-line tests.
All I know is that $44.8 million dollars would repair a lot of crumbling buildings and buy a lot of library books for students. Wasting money on testing does not improve outcomes for students.
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All this CBT hustle is a way to facilitate the
computer takeover of classrooms. This time it’s massive field testing in the guise of operational testing. SED invites us to dig our own graves on the death march to key stroke education. This is the inevitable end game the authorities envision. OPT OUT.
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One reason computer tests may be so popular with the Misleaders is that that it’s harder for teachers/administrators to cheat on them. No more shady erasures. I know of a district where one grade level always had suspiciously high scores. Once computerized testing was introduced, several teachers in that grade level sought new, non-teaching positions. I suspect they knew they couldn’t keep their score-inflated reputations from deflating under the new regime.
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Or, it could be that kids do better, as Diane pointed out, on paper and pencil tests, and when they switched to online testing the grades went down, as they always do.
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