Re: Maryland Alternatives to Exit Exams

["Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>]

I have mentioned it, but while the guessing point is correct, the more 
significant educational issue will be the increased pressure to reduce 
teaching and learning to what can be measured with multiple choice items. 
That ought to prepare students for college, well-paid jobs, thoughtful civic 
activism...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Bernstein" <kber@earthlink.net>
To: <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Maryland Alternatives to Exit Exams


> one key point on which no one is focusing is that the board is dropping 
> requirements for breife constructed responses (paragraphs) and extended 
> constructed responses (essays) ostensibly because they take took long to 
> turn around and score.
>
> Nut on selected response items (multiple choice) there is, unlike SATs and 
> APs, no correction for guessing.  Thus a student properly instructed to 
> guess on every question is not penalized, and thus the scores obtained are 
> inflated somewhat from what the student's underlying knowledgge actually 
> is.
>
> teacherken aka ken bernstein
> who teaches a course tested by Maryland's High School Assessments
>
> Kenneth J. Bernstein
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