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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that evaluation of math skills in elementary has gone waaaay downhill since COVID.  Kids used to take actual math tests on paper.  They could get partial credit by showing their work.  Now every math test is on the iPad, there is no partial credit, and many of the offered tests have major errors.

Last year I asked to see one of the tests after my daughter failed it and it was riddled with errors in the questions.  Shockingly bad.  The teacher hasn't even looked at the questions and just recorded the scores.  After all, it was the official test software supplied by APS and was supposed to mimic the SOL.  Why wouldn't it be correct?  Unfortunately, it's total crap.

All classroom unit math tests should be on paper.  Partial credit should be available if you show your work.  That's how teachers learn where students have gaps.  [/quote]

Yes I recall you posting about this incessantly last year. Time to get a new soapbox. [/quote]

Impressive that you remember PP’s posts from last year. Seems like you spend most of your time on DCUM.[/quote]

haha, yes i probably do spend too much time on dcum. but this post stood out cuz the PP posted so much about this one teacher and this one test. there are problems in aps yes, but any system can have one bad apple. seems like pp is obsessed with this one point.[/quote]

I get tired of hearing people rant about the same thing over and over on dcum without doing anything about it. Join a committee. Make a public comment to the school board if it bothers you that much. [/quote]
Oh yes, because no one has ever complained about the APS writing curriculum before.  If you don't want to read it, there's a scroll feature for that.  [/quote]

do you complain where it matters? do you work to improve it? or do you just rant on here? [/quote]
Who made you the board police?  Geeze.[/quote]

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