Comments on: Meap Retake http://sapele.edublogs.org/2007/11/19/meap-retake/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:19:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: A Finely Crafted Run-on Sentence » Community http://sapele.edublogs.org/2007/11/19/meap-retake/comment-page-1/#comment-23 A Finely Crafted Run-on Sentence » Community Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:27:05 +0000 http://sapele.edublogs.org/2007/11/19/meap-retake/#comment-23 [...] Comment 4 [...] [...] Comment 4 [...]

]]> By: Jenny http://sapele.edublogs.org/2007/11/19/meap-retake/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Jenny Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:33:12 +0000 http://sapele.edublogs.org/2007/11/19/meap-retake/#comment-22 Yikes. I can see how this issue can cause a lot of hullaballoo. Standardized testing is, by nature, standard, so I can see the point of the leaders who called for the retake. I would hate to be a kid who didn't get an advantage and was adversely affected. This leads to the question 'WERE any kids adversely affected?' Like you said, come on, how many kids even read the newspaper, but even for those who did- what's the difference? How much advantage is there for that kind of thing? The still had to do all actual writing for the test during the time period (and without supplemental materials). I think this issue could lead to a discussion about how we test writing. Why not release a topic ahead of time? Why all the secrecy? Yikes. I can see how this issue can cause a lot of hullaballoo. Standardized testing is, by nature, standard, so I can see the point of the leaders who called for the retake. I would hate to be a kid who didn’t get an advantage and was adversely affected.

This leads to the question ‘WERE any kids adversely affected?’ Like you said, come on, how many kids even read the newspaper, but even for those who did- what’s the difference? How much advantage is there for that kind of thing? The still had to do all actual writing for the test during the time period (and without supplemental materials).

I think this issue could lead to a discussion about how we test writing. Why not release a topic ahead of time? Why all the secrecy?

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