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Education

madfloridian

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10. You know..that's a strange question.

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 10:46 PM

Sep 2014

As a long time teacher of primary grades, I understand that they would expect there to be a subtraction problem there.

There is not. If they wanted an addition problem they should have asked for it.

The defense of this faulty test item is really worrying me.

It is not okay to do that to little kids...or big ones for that matter.

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I would never have expected this level of vitriol about a faulty test item. [View all] madfloridian Sep 2014 OP

why? high stakes + erroneous content = crappy education elehhhhna Sep 2014 #1

What did you expect? How do you perceive the responses should have gone? . . . Journeyman Sep 2014 #2

That there was no minus sign in the answer choices. madfloridian Sep 2014 #3

You know..that's a strange question. madfloridian Sep 2014 #10

I agree. I also thought the structure of the question a bit odd. . . Journeyman Sep 2014 #11

All you need do is restructure the English language. immoderate Sep 2014 #4

i remember a faulty sat question unblock Sep 2014 #5

I was just reading that thread... malthaussen Sep 2014 #6

All it really takes is Carol Burriss' comment, elleng Sep 2014 #7

The CBS interviewer even noticed. madfloridian Sep 2014 #12

Not reading. elleng Sep 2014 #14

I am feeling a little sick about this whole thing now. madfloridian Sep 2014 #8

That's the "creating our own reality" paradigm, coming into play Demeter Sep 2014 #9

Also a decade is now ten days in first grade. roody Sep 2014 #13

The word 'decade' does have a more general meaning... xocet Sep 2014 #16

That is one heck of a thread. Thanks for the OP. n/t xocet Sep 2014 #15