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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
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- Subject: Re: Testing
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 23:03:46 GMT
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- In article <C03o1z.CHG@eis.calstate.edu>, pmacfar@eis.calstate.edu (Paul MacFarlane) writes:
- |> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
- |> > Carol.Hooper@f64.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Hooper) writes:
- |> > >Hi, All. I'm here to ask advice from experienced teachers concerning
- |> > >the state testing which we will be giving in May. Our school system
- |> >
- |> > I say, teach the test. It's the *only* honest solution to this dilemma.
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- I never even had to see province-wide tests. What are they like? I'm sure
- they cover only a small part of the math learned in a class. The test material
- can be taught, but the broad picture of mathematics should be taught too.
- Test or no test, the math taught in public school is pitiful.
-
- |> > What you do is, you tell the kids, "Look, kids, a bunch of idiot politicians
- |> > who don't know mathematics from a hole in the ground and couldn't care less
- |> > about you or your education have decided to impose these tests, and on the
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- Can you give some sample test questions? I'd like to know what's going on.
- Don't teachers have a say? Or do they just let politicians boss them around?
-
- Personally, I wouldn't like it if my teacher had to teach precisely the
- material dictated by politicians. There appears to be a student-teacher
- relation breakdown. The course of action is set even before the class
- starts. I may as well take the tests as soon as possible and get out of
- the class.
-
- |> In general, I agree. I've done extensive study upon my own guinea... I
- |> mean, students....over several years, and I've found that in any testing
- |> situation, the form of the questions affects the final scores just as much
- |> as the questions themselves. The younger the student, the more true this is.
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- Are they trick questions?
-
- --
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- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
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- Math is tough! -- Barbie
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