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"Abusive Nagging" - A Public Service Report from difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 389378" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Yup. Wiz had not even heard of Piers Anthony at that point, but it is similar. I remember when he read those books - he commented on it. LOL. </p><p> </p><p>As far as grading writing goes, a few years ago some of the grad students at the university here did a study that showed that the most accurate way to predict the grading on the writing portion of the tests that each student has to take to graduate high school is NOT by reading the papers, by weighing them, or by looking at the length or number of words written. It was to toss ALL the papers up into the air in a stairwell. Those that landed in certain areas got A's, B's etc...</p><p> </p><p>The really SAD thing is that this study was done with that option as something they were positive would NOT be accurate. The study was critiqued by a world class statistician who teaches survey design and was very well designed. It was really shocking that the stairwell toss was more accurate than any other method used. Of course the amt of time the graders have for each paper is less than 1 minute - the time is allotted by the state. Each grader has to do so many tests in so many days. To spend more than a minute on a paper would mean they don't sleep, eat or take any breaks for the few days they have to grade the papers. </p><p> </p><p>Then there was a study that was written up online last week about getting the best score on the SATs. The longer the answer to the essays is, the better the grade was. Factual accuracy, spelling, punctuation, even grammar are not predictors or seemingly weighed very heavily. The longer an answer is the higher the score is. Regardless of what the answer says. Eons ago when I was in high school one of my classmates wrote a fiction story instead of answering the essay questions. She got an amazingly high score but it was very long. It truly did NOT answer or even mention anything that the question asked. She did it on purpose to see what would happen. She had already been accepted to the college of her choice with a full scholarship and was leaving school at Christmas anyway, so she wanted to see what would happen. </p><p> </p><p>I do hope the teacher has a response to the paper that is worthy of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 389378, member: 1233"] Yup. Wiz had not even heard of Piers Anthony at that point, but it is similar. I remember when he read those books - he commented on it. LOL. As far as grading writing goes, a few years ago some of the grad students at the university here did a study that showed that the most accurate way to predict the grading on the writing portion of the tests that each student has to take to graduate high school is NOT by reading the papers, by weighing them, or by looking at the length or number of words written. It was to toss ALL the papers up into the air in a stairwell. Those that landed in certain areas got A's, B's etc... The really SAD thing is that this study was done with that option as something they were positive would NOT be accurate. The study was critiqued by a world class statistician who teaches survey design and was very well designed. It was really shocking that the stairwell toss was more accurate than any other method used. Of course the amt of time the graders have for each paper is less than 1 minute - the time is allotted by the state. Each grader has to do so many tests in so many days. To spend more than a minute on a paper would mean they don't sleep, eat or take any breaks for the few days they have to grade the papers. Then there was a study that was written up online last week about getting the best score on the SATs. The longer the answer to the essays is, the better the grade was. Factual accuracy, spelling, punctuation, even grammar are not predictors or seemingly weighed very heavily. The longer an answer is the higher the score is. Regardless of what the answer says. Eons ago when I was in high school one of my classmates wrote a fiction story instead of answering the essay questions. She got an amazingly high score but it was very long. It truly did NOT answer or even mention anything that the question asked. She did it on purpose to see what would happen. She had already been accepted to the college of her choice with a full scholarship and was leaving school at Christmas anyway, so she wanted to see what would happen. I do hope the teacher has a response to the paper that is worthy of it. [/QUOTE]
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