Re: (no subject)

[Claryce Evans <claryce_evans@GSE.HARVARD.EDU>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:53:22 -0500 (EST) Jennifer Soldan
It might be interesting to ask the students to write a test which
they think other students would be able to pass but their
professors might not.
Music group X   is to  Macbeth  as   Y  is to  Z
Claryce

<Usoldj00@AOL.COM> wrote:

> Hi all-
>     I'm researching standardized testing in the United States for a class
> inservice at Cal State Long Beach.  I would like to give my students
> something one of my highschool teachers gave to me a long time ago but I
> don't know where to find it.  Can anyone help me?  I'm looking for a test
> that displays the cultural biases of standardized testing.  It is an actual
> test that I can administer to all of them.  This is difficult to explain.
> The one my highschool teahcer gave to me asked questions and used slang from
> a culture my all-white highschool was not familiar with.  The slang and
> language came from studies done in East Los Angeles.  Words and phrases used
> on the test were not comprehensible to my fellow students and I because we
> had never been exposed to that kind of language, or culture.  So does anyone
> know where I could find a mock test to display the cultural biases of
> standardized testing?
>
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Harvard Graduate School of Education

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