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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15 pages in, and despite repeating it over and over, nobody has actually put any meat to the argument.

How SPECIFICALLY is it "developmentally inappropriate?"  Nobody has yet answered that.

How SPECIFICALLY is it "hard even for an adult?"
Nobody has yet answered that.

I don't give anecdotal information a whole lot of credit, because yes, there are adults out there, even professionals and teachers who don't seem to be all that bright.[/quote]

I took a sample test and the subject matter looks fine; but the kids do not yet have the computer skills to actually show what they know on the test. Our school is working hard at getting kids up to speed on using the computers, but our school doesn't have enough computers.[/quote]

Psychometric analysis can identify questions that are poorly written, ambiguous, et cetera, to identify questions that need to be eliminated, revised, et cetera.  Psychometric analysis can also detect cheating and quite a few other things based on test results.  Normally what testing companies do is to work with a test item bank that is constantly being reviewed and updated by subject matter experts, and they fold the results of the analysis into their cut scores, they may exclude questions that are found to be invalid from scoring, et cetera.  There's a whole lot more objective science and analysis that goes into standardized testing processes than you are probably even aware of.  It's a lot more involved than anything a typical classroom teacher would ever be involved in.[/quote]

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