What is the point of spending years and years penalising a child for not showing his work and then giving a test in which the working is completely irrelevant. Multi-choice isn't much used here but I have had a couple of good ones. To me though the purpose of a test is to see what I have actually learnt though not my ability to choose correctly between four options without actually having to solve the problem.
However my all time worst test award goes to unit standards as practiced by NZ polytechnics. The question is only judged correct if it has certain key words or phrases. The only way you can get full marks is to quote the text verbatim (in an assignment literally copy). I mean how does this equal learning?
Last edited by puffin; 10/14/13 02:21 PM.
