Re: Boston Globe: MCAS results show weakness in teens' grasp of

[Robert J. MacG. Dawson]

I wrote:
> 

> >  An obvious approach that would seem to give the advantages hoped for
> >from the focussed test without the disadvantages would be just to group
> >questions in the original test in roughly increasing order of
> >difficulty.      ^^^^^^^^

which, I think, answers Dennis' question.

I wouldn't use sad faces for the hard ones - maybe exclamation marks or
stars. 

        -Robert Dawson


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