Sadly, if a lie is repeated often enough, it eventually becomes believed as the truth. Educators, legislators, the media, educators, and others have all been referring to the MSP and HSPE—and the former State assessment, the WASL—as “standardized” tests. Not True.

The MSP or Measurements of Student Progress will be the new assessment for grades 3-8. It is intended to be more diagnostic than the previous assessment (WASL). Online assessing will be phased in starting in the spring of 2010.

Information from the website of the Office of the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction.