[etni] Fw: From a checker who knows
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- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:33:41 +0200
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From: Barry Silverbeg
Subject: From a checker who knows
Good Morning.
There are two problems with the flowchart of the Moed Alef E exam. Non Bagrut
teachers, skip this please:
ONE: Many kids did not give enough weight to item 2 of the
flowchart: "Holt is not satisfied." So they did not look for the cause (
'Many students answered incorrectly'), and they blindly rushed in to give some
other completion to the first item ('The numbers on the screen show that..").
This kind of error should be fairly easy to prevent.
TWO But the final item ( HE...) is misleading. The answer
that so many pupils wrote, "He knows whether to go back over material he's
already covered" gets a zero grade. But isn't that what the text says: "If
the results show otherwise [i.e. the students answered incorrectly] ...at least
I know whether to go back over material i've already covered or to move on."
lines 16-18.
The exam is asking for a clear cut cause and effect: The exminee must answer
the unwritten question 'What does Holt do,' not what he knows he should do .
OK.. But lets face it folks: How many of us would have allowed that answer if
we were marking the exam without the official key? How many of us may have
written this answer ourselves if we took this exam?
I saw hundreds of exams where pupils lost up to 16 points on these errors.
This is blatantly unfair. The 'new bagrut' is now in its fourth year; the
curriculum has been around for a decade and a half.
But what percentage of our pupils is really coming into the exam trained in
this kind of semantic analysis? What percentage of our teachers has the
knowledge or the time to teach it?
Barry S
Sara wrote:
> We also had gaps in the E grades. Our 11th grade 5 pointers did E in the
> winter, and a lot of them redid it in May, to get a better grade. Almost all
> of them got a much lower grade this time.
> And a lot of the 4 point 12th graders failed E. They retook the test last
> week, I hope the grades will be better.
>
> I have a feeling it was the flowchart that made problems. Maybe we will
> check it when we get the notebooks in Sept.
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