Reply to When will FCPS teachers quit prepping / scamming the SOLs?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "When will FCPS teachers quit prepping / scamming the SOLs?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realize that the OP is just trying to be funny here, but one needs to realize that preparing for the SOLs is also known as [b]teaching the curriculum. [/b]

All the SOLs do is test how well the students have learned the subjects they've been studying all year long. Studying and practicing for a subject matter test is an appropriate use of class time and is very different from practicing in advance for a test like the CogAT.[/quote]

Comparing SOLs to the CogAT is like comparing apples to potatoes: they're in completely different categories.

[/quote]

Yes, no different than studying for any subject matter test. It is not really that difficult to understand. [/quote]

A subject matter test is different than an ability test. There is a reason you can only take the WISC once in any 12 month period. The test's results will be unreliable if the test taker has been exposed to the types of questions on the test within that time.

On the other hand, subject matter tests should be practiced for since they are testing knowledge, not ability.

There is an agenda here to make practice for the SOL appear to be the same as practice for the CogAT, but it leaves out the crucial point that they are not the same kind of test.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics