Песня про тесты

[yucca]

Грядет новый SAT тест, говорит журнал Time
Избранные цитаты из статьи:

"There's a danger that making it too curriculum-dependent will actually
increase overall score gaps for some minority groups," says Rebecca Zwick, a
former chair of the College Board's own SAT Committee. "Because we have such
huge disparities in the quality of schooling in the country, kids who go to
crummy schools may be disadvantaged."

Мне нравится это may be...

In Ohio, curriculum specialist Jennifer Manoukian
of the Sycamore school system, outside Cincinnati, feels uneasy about the
prospect of grammar questions. "Research shows that direct instruction of
grammar is not beneficial," she says. "The correlation between that kind of
grammar instruction and student performance in real life is very low. Yet here
we have a test seeming to say that you have to go back to some old methods."

Ну ясно, зачем вообще в жизни грамматика?

The use of technical language will also increase in math. For instance, in the
past, an SAT item might have stipulated that group A has 10 members and group B
has 10 + 5x members, where x = 3. What's the total number in both groups? Add
the 10 from group A and the 10 + (5 x 3) from group B. You get 35. But on the
New SAT, the question might read, "What is the union of sets A and B?" Union and
set are terms of art for mathematicians; a "union of two sets" is everything in
both sets. The answer is still 35, but you must know the jargon to get it.

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Re: offtopic

[yucca.livejournal.com]

Можно, если они были в сети (а не переданы по секрету моей тетей, считающей, что самое лучшее я написала в возрасте 14 лет :))
А может, я и подпишусь на Вашу рассылку, подборка очень симпатичная.

Re: offtopic

[gingema]

С тетей не знакома - может, и к сожалению :)
А подписаться - всегда welcome!