Approximately 80 students across tri-town schools will soon take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers standardized exam as the state assesses whether or not it will continue with MCAS.

The test, referred to as PARCC, provides more individualized results than MCAS, Superintendent Doug White said at Monday night’s Mattapoisett School Committee meeting.

“The Dept of Education, after this two-year pilot, will decide whether or not it is at least as good if not better than MCAS. If not, they will stay with MCAS,” said White.

Elise Frangos, assistant superintendent of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, said PARCC uses “real world problem-solving.”

She also said the pilot testing will not have any effect on the schools’ standings, but committee member James Muse was worried about the amount of testing done throughout the year.

“I’m a little bit concerned about more of the broad based assessments,” said Muse. “The kids lose half of their school year taking a test.”

Muse also said he doubted that the MCAS helps individual students.

Member Charles Motta also took issue with more unfunded, state-mandated programs.

“So many of these programs that are coming down the pipeline, they say just do it,” Motta said.

Frangos said the pilot tests will not make a significant impact on the schools this year and that the district will not receive any data from the exams.