“This spring, with a six-district pilot, New Hampshire joined a small but growing list of at least a half-dozen states experimenting with large-scale arts testing. Educators prefer to call the new exams “assessments,” because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The goal, though, is to create a common “test”—often in the form of a project—that can be given to students in different classrooms across the state and used to help compare the performance of schools and districts.”