**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** In reference to Maxine Bennet's posting, Nina and Rivka were not talking about alternative assessment but the problems with the unevenness of the reading comprehension exam. None of those very valid points was addressed in Maxine's letter, and we still have had no satisfactory response as to why the Native Speakers are doing so badly or as to why veteran teachers suddenly need an answer key in order to know what the right answers are. Nobody is saying that everything about the NBA is bad ,just that there seem to be a lot of discrepancies , not to mention the extra workload that we are saddled with ,if we implement everything as we are supposed to. Ruth ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####