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average.========= From the NY Times web site (3 July 2002) ========this year, to 33 percent from 11 percent. Only 16 percent this year
Statewide, the proportion of students who failed the exam tripled
scored between 85 and 100, compared with 33 percent last year. About
40,000 students statewide took the exam in June.
Oh my! 11% of one's students fail the test and the instructors are
comfortable? -- Now we find that really 33% of ones students deserve
to fail!!
And no one is complaining about the instruction?!? Everyone
complains about the test?
Further only 16% of the student merited a B+ or better. Gee, that
is terrible! Poor souls! Looks like a vacation in Lake Wobegone
where some in the system think that the students are _all_ above
In one incarnation I taught at a college in NY. I can attest that
33% of the regents students -- at least of those who ended up at that
college -- _deserved_ to fail. Yet still no one complains about the
instruction. The union is a powerful force in the NY.
Sorry Herb. (;-) Brooklyn is an exception.
It must be the test's fault.
Jim Green
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