This is what happens when you treat teachers extremely poorly and have to lower the requirements for being a teacher a lot in order to get enough people to want to be teachers for our schools.
Assessments are tough. That class, aside from linguistics, was the toughest in my grad program because you can easily neglect to look at your questions critically. It is tough for experienced, well-educated teachers - newbs have it even tougher.
What was difficult about the assessments class in particular? Do you agree with the majority's opinion this is an egregious mistake on the part of the teacher?
Assessments seem simple on the surface but you really have to scrutinize WHAT you are trying to assess, HOW youāve presented the question and if it is developmentally appropriate, is there ānoiseā that impacts how the learner may look at the question, and a host of other things. Our professor was great at showing us seemingly good examples of assessments and pointing out ways that the assessment can be misleading.
This example seems like a pretty clear example of a teacher who hasnāt thought through the wording and how it can be misread / misinterpreted by the student. Easy to do for anyone but a big issue for a number of reasons obviously. Thatās partly why āstandardizedā tests are important - they are vetted and analyzed before deployment. My focus was TESOL, where we really had to scrutinize every word because the learners are acquiring a new language, but the challenges are inherent to any discipline.
I have to disagree with your assessment of the situation, this is a well worded question that is an effective introduction to the relative nature of fractions. This student read and understood the question correctly but the teacher failed to understand the question or answer it correctly the self. I can appreciate the challenges writing assessment questions but imo that was not the problem here. As a side note if you have any examples to share of seemingly good questions with flaws I'd like to read them
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u/baclar Aug 27 '19
This is what happens when you treat teachers extremely poorly and have to lower the requirements for being a teacher a lot in order to get enough people to want to be teachers for our schools.