Ed Darrell
Dallas
In a message dated 12/18/2004 12:23:28 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The "report" is an obvious, albeit well done, satire. The SAT does not
test knowledge of science even in the section formerly known as
"verbal" and soon to be known as "critical reading." It gives students
a passage to read and asks questions designed to test their reading
comprehension. It does NOT presume knowledge of what is contained in
the passage before one reads it, though such familiarity helps.
The College Board does give various versions of the tests, but does not
modify them on a school-district or state by state basis. The whole
point is to give what is essentially the same test to everyone across
the country in an attempt to test proficiency at certain skills deemed
needed for success at college-level work. Of course there is a level
of knowledge involved, but not of the sort satirized in the Swift
Report: News and Views Before You Need Them.
Steve
On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 01:05 PM, Ed Brayton wrote:
> The site this appears on is a well known parody site, so I would
> assume it is exactly that.
>
> Ed Brayton
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone on the list know if this is indeed the direction the
>> testing
>> is taking. That is, if the report is accurate. The example questions
>> seem to ask for more than reading comprehension to me.
>>
>> Susanna Peters
>
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