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[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: California standards test in physics



At 9:05 AM -0500 1/6/05, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:59:55 -0800 Larry Woolf <Larry.Woolf@GAT.COM>
writes:

3. A student wires a series circuit that includes a
block of rubber and a light bulb. She states that
she does not expect the light bulb to light up
when current is applied to the circuit. Which of
the following best describes her statement?

*** There appears to be a built-in bias with regard to gender here.

Do you consider it gender bias when equal numbers of questions refer to
females and males? If so, what is your definition of gender bias?

Why is it necessary to identify the student as a female. Other wording
could be substituted to avoid this gender bias (which is disallowed in
California).

Other wording could be used, this is true; but would it be as interesting,
personal, and engaging? Would it be an "fairer"?

*** The the statement does not specifically say that the block of rubber
was included in the series wiring of the circuit.

That was pretty clear to me from the wording; it said the circuit includes
the block of rubber.

Larry
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