You know those tests we're all supposed to be supporting and pressuring parents to trust?
"Things have changed. Opt back in. Parents aren't seeing change because they don't want to, blah blah blah???"
Today, Day 2 of ELA tests written by Pearson but published by Questar, my students discovered there was no planning page for the essay. (This is the designated for utilizing the pre-writing planning skills I spend so much time teaching...)
"Things have changed. Opt back in. Parents aren't seeing change because they don't want to, blah blah blah???"
Today, Day 2 of ELA tests written by Pearson but published by Questar, my students discovered there was no planning page for the essay. (This is the designated for utilizing the pre-writing planning skills I spend so much time teaching...)
The written and oral directions clearly tell students to use the Planning Page, and practice materials by Pearson have always contained a Planning Page.
But today? No Planning Page.
And while that may seem like a relatively minor error, in this current climate of "trust us, things have changed" to have such an obvious omission is unacceptable.
It is hard to have confidence in the existence of a myriad of smaller, nuanced details we can't detect so easily, if something so blatant has been overlooked.
Just thought I'd share...
(Not sure what this will do to the validity of the essay scores. Some of my students really depend on the planning strategies I've taught them in order to write organized essays the respond in detail to a given prompt.)
Just thought I'd share...
(Not sure what this will do to the validity of the essay scores. Some of my students really depend on the planning strategies I've taught them in order to write organized essays the respond in detail to a given prompt.)
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