Bang!Zoom! Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 This is a hysterical quote, found this in a page today. The background is a discussion on the reasons why a generalized PS test can be weak when trying to identify children for a gifted program. Moreover, they generally utilize multiple-choice questions, which gifted children tend to interpret as more complex than they are. Tears of laughter here, I think it's so funny! Have you ever sat down with your kids and tried to administer worksheets in multiple choice formats that led to all day arguments? Oh good Lord, this is bulls-eye cat fight food over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathwonk Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yes my children were easily able to supply valid reasons for the legitimacy of many of the answers. I took it as my job to teach them how to recognize the answer that the test maker wanted, i.e. the less imaginative one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yep. I tell the kid, "Look, there's a difference between the beans in the soup and the soup itself. They want soup answers, give them soup." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathwonk Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 here's one to discuss with them: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080815093202AAu7Ghn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Wow, that would take the kid to get a year though MW! lol That's practically a supreme court case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yep. I've told my DD "This is a 2nd grade test, therefore they're looking for 2nd grade answers."-IOW, if you're debating an answer because of something you read in a book Mommy brought home from the COLLEGE library, you're probably not answering the question the way the test writers want you to answer it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathwonk Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 one*mom, the quote at the bottom of your post reminded me of some lines about the great teacher and mathematician Raoul Bott in an eccentric essay on teaching: http://www.math.uga.edu/~roy/onteaching.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 one*mom, the quote at the bottom of your post reminded me of some lines about the great teacher and mathematician Raoul Bott in an eccentric essay on teaching: http://www.math.uga.edu/~roy/onteaching.pdf ::hive five:: MW My favorite line in that paper (which I'm printing and putting in *important thoughts* binder for keeps) was this: In my case, several years passed before I understood Bott's statement. In return, I gift you this link, you'll dig it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackermom Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yep. I've told my DD "This is a 2nd grade test, therefore they're looking for 2nd grade answers." :iagree: DD blew a gasket in second grade trying to answer the question "Which of these rectangles is the largest?," since "largest" was way too vague. Once I coaxed her up off of the floor, she eventually recovered and wrote a paragraph at the bottom of the page discussing different ways to measure a rectangle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 ^like! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy G Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 :iagree: DD blew a gasket in second grade trying to answer the question "Which of these rectangles is the largest?," since "largest" was way too vague. Once I coaxed her up off of the floor, she eventually recovered and wrote a paragraph at the bottom of the page discussing different ways to measure a rectangle. Ha -love it! DD once wrote a paragraph in a 2nd grade multiple choice test (before homeschool) explaining scenarios in which each answer could be right. She was marked wrong. She decided her teacher just wasn't that smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 My dh will be able to tell you why all of the answers are right, depending on your interpretation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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