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Re: [Phys-l] California state standards and their tests



I have a question for those of you who have been involved in writing
and/or vetting the California Standards Tests questions:

Are the released questions _representative_ of the corpus that is
used to construct the tests each year?

As it says at
http://www.av8n.com/physics/ca-test-questions.htm#sec-qs

] The released questions are so bad that one hopes they are not
] representative. It is astonishing to see such a high concentration
] of objectionable questions. Perhaps they are the culls, removed in
] order to improve the corpus. (Releasing the culls would create the
] paradoxical situation where doing the right thing makes matters
] seem worse than they are.)

I realize you can't comment on specific unreleased questions,
but I reckon there's a lot that could be said without giving
away the store.