[etni] Re: time
- From: "Bari Nirenberg" <nirenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ybmedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:43:46 +0200
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actually brought up this point in a private discussion with Batya, so I
thought it would be appropriate to repeat what I said to her. Pupils who
take an entire 3 or 4 point exam on the same day will be at school for 4
hours and 45 minutes, 3:45 of which is actual testing and the rest of the
time being the breaks between tests (assuming that the breaks will be 1/2
hour each). 5 pointers have only one break, so the total time will be
shorter. That's a very long testing day. The only time in my life that I
ever remember being tested for that long was when I took the PSAT and SAT in
high school and the GRE in college (and now that I think about it, I also to
the NTE -- National Teachers' Exam, or I think that was what it was
called -- at the end of graduate school). None of those exams were taken
during periods of time when I had to take a lot of other exams and none of
them tested a single subject (the PSAT and SAT tested language skills and
math, the GRE tested language skills, math and logic and the NTE tested a
whole bunch of different subjects).
I thought that the 3-hour exam was long, but 3:45, even if there are breaks
in the middle, seems a bit excessive to me and I pity the students who have
to do it all in one day.
Bari
> -----Original Message-----
> From: etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:etni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Yisrael and Batya Medad
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 13:33
> To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [etni] time
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> **** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org
> ****Bari has been bringing up some very good points. Even just the ABC
> together, will be a very long testing day. And they are for our weak
> students. Are we testing endurance, or English? I was hoping to be able
> to have my students do the modules separately, but now it seems
> that I may
> not have the approval of my school.
>
> Batya
>
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