[etni] bagrut
- From: judy cohen <judywcil@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Every year we have problems with the bagrut - tricky questions, listening
comprehension at the wrong time or on the wrong channel, questionable texts,
extraordinary answers that no one had thought of, problems for particular
populations, etc. etc. WE want fix-ups - make it nicer next time, grade it
more leniently, another moed, etc. etc.
Why don't we just come to the logical conclusion, as have so many leading
educators in the country? The Bagrut is not a good thing. It has more room
for error and misjudgment, more variance in level of difficulty, than most
tests around the world. In English it doesn't really reflect command of the
language, no matter how many different versions with fancy names and acronyms
we try.
Placated by gmul, teachers allow Senior High School to become a bagrut conveyor
belt, teaching to become test coaching, and students to become bored and
disgusted as they push, pull, pinch, hoist and drag them through the bagrut.
And this wikll determine who our academics will be, who our jobholders will be,
and eventually who our leaders will be.
Instead of quibbling about what was wrong with this or that particular bagrut,
why don't we talk about alternatives? It's time for a forum. Of course, there
are forums like that every few years and they usually culminate in having more
possible exams added (like salsa). But we shoudn't stop thinking.
Judy
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