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Re: Test Protection


  • To: hberlak@yahoo.com, arn-l@interversity.org
  • Subject: Re: Test Protection
  • From: Csubstance@aol.com
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:14:41 EDT

Transparency should also include the complete publication of all test items,
materials, scoring rubrics and other information once the tests have been
given.

Only this kind of transparency can really reveal the weaknesses and
limitations of all high-stakes (usually multiple choice machine scored) tests. And the
tests have to be available in full because only the full test can tell the
public whether it really "covers" the material that is supposedly on it.

I don't know why this simple proposal, which can be implemented at each state
level, is so difficult for people to push.

Are people so intimidated by test secrecy craziness (or cowed by what
happened to me) that they are afraid to note that the Test Emperor Has No Clothes?

George Schmidt
Editor, Substance
www.substancenews.com




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