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Re: grades, assessments, etc.

At one time I thought negatively of "teaching to the test". However, I now
simply look at it from a different perspective. My goal for assessment is
to "test what I teach". There should absolutely be a match between what is
being taught and what is being tested. This is why course objectives are
so important. The same objectives that are used to guide what is taught
should be used to create the test.

AT

At 01:30 PM 5/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
When there's a test, teaching to the test is more-or-less
inevitable. If it's a bad test, this is a disaster. If it's
a good test, this is not a big problem and actually has some
profound advantages.



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Dr. Aaron Titus
Department of Physics
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North Carolina A&T State University
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