Pineapple Controversy makes the New Yorker. Gets elegant illustration.
Or you can go with this one.
Let me get this straight, we have evolved so much in testing that we now ask students to analyze a poorly personified pineapple when they are often unable to figure out their own feelings?
The next time you hear a student or teacher criticizing standardized tests, saying they don’t accurately reflect what students have learned in class, well…you’ll be hard-pressed to deny they may have a point.
Explaining the original: a “shaggy dog” tale that cracks up many 13-year-olds and leaves others clueless or annoyed.
Tortoise and the Hare revisited.
When his teacher asked about the question that asked which character was the wisest, the student replied that the question itself should not have been a multiple choice question; rather, it needed to be a constructed response (essay) question, since the answer would vary, depending on one’s point of view:
The Discussion held in an 8th grade classroom.
I never would have thought that one of my favorite exports from Hawaii and the animal that inspired my favorite cartoon character would play such an interesting role in the discussions surrounding education reform.
Literary Criticism.
If you spent this weekend chuckling or fuming about a nonsensical standardized test question involving a hare and a talking pineapple, you have PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson to thank.
Pearson Education in the spotlight.
Pearson has been very sloppy with its New York State tests this year.
Or you can go with this one.
Let me get this straight, we have evolved so much in testing that we now ask students to analyze a poorly personified pineapple when they are often unable to figure out their own feelings?
The next time you hear a student or teacher criticizing standardized tests, saying they don’t accurately reflect what students have learned in class, well…you’ll be hard-pressed to deny they may have a point.
Explaining the original: a “shaggy dog” tale that cracks up many 13-year-olds and leaves others clueless or annoyed.
Tortoise and the Hare revisited.
When his teacher asked about the question that asked which character was the wisest, the student replied that the question itself should not have been a multiple choice question; rather, it needed to be a constructed response (essay) question, since the answer would vary, depending on one’s point of view:
The Discussion held in an 8th grade classroom.
I never would have thought that one of my favorite exports from Hawaii and the animal that inspired my favorite cartoon character would play such an interesting role in the discussions surrounding education reform.
Literary Criticism.
If you spent this weekend chuckling or fuming about a nonsensical standardized test question involving a hare and a talking pineapple, you have PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson to thank.
Pearson Education in the spotlight.
Pearson has been very sloppy with its New York State tests this year.
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