[etni] [FWD: Re: English vs Intelligence?]]]
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Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: RE: English vs Intelligence?]]
From: "Tom Balazs" <etnimail@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, May 20, 2004 9:18 pm
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I was tutoring someone for the Bagrut and while trying to do an essay
question he said to me, "this isn't fair. They're not testing my
English skills, they're testing my ability to think."
> Andrew wrote:
> "What concerns me more than anything else is the fact that we are
> reaching a stage where the English Bagrut is testing intelligence as
> much as it is testing a student's knowledge of English.
> In my opinion, many students will lose points, not because they
> cannot understand or express themselves in English (and we are talking
> about an exam which tests English), but because they have been unable to
> grasp particular concepts or have misinterpreted them."
Patricia wrote:
> This is exactly the point I made in my previous email - that many of
> the questions in the modules have been constructed according to the
> highest levels of thinking (see Bloom's taxonomy). I hope that
> those who build the questions for future tests will think again before
> creating such questions.
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