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Almost nobody involved is incentivized to accurately measure student’s writing ability It's the same reason you see keyword posters in math education. "Togethe
by HarryHirsch 7y ago
Almost nobody involved is incentivized to accurately measure student’s writing ability
It's the same reason you see keyword posters in math education. "Together" means "plus", that kind of thing. It's completely worthless, except for one-step problems, and even then it doesn't always work. What is happening is collusion between teachers and testmakers. You can't teach understanding, but you can teach test-passing techniques because the way the test is set permits this.
You see the same thing here, in English you can get away with not teaching quality writing if you teach techniques to score well.
- topologistics 7y agoIf I have 3 left shoes colored blue green and red, and you have 2 right shoes colored black and white, how many pairs can we make if our lefts and rights are put together? Hint: together does not mean plus.
- Spivak 7y agoI feel like the mistake is assuming that essay writing is about the content. It's just a thing to give the student something barely non-trivial to write about. When your essays are graded they're marked down for mechanical and wording problems. There's really no point in trying or grade 'good ideas' on a subject piece you had maybe 10 minutes to skim.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoa subject piece you had maybe 10 minutes to skim That's a travesty, and you know it because when the kids are in college and they have as much time as they like to write their assignments they all use the wrong words and then misapply them.