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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously doubt the validity of this [b]test.  [/b]You are actually thinking that asking a 7 or 8 year old if they have seen questions like these outside of school is being noted as some gospel of truth to be used to sway a GBRS or other mark in the kid's file as to his/her ability?  A kid has no idea if he/she has been prepped or not unless the parent says you're being prepped.  My own kids have admitted to things they didn't do and they did do because they are kids!  (Once mine said she put the fridge on the coldest setting when I angrily asked who did it - she was in the middle of her time out when my husband comes downstairs and says it was him.  She was SEVEN.  [/quote]

I meant validity of the post.[/quote]

+1 that the kids' reporting may not be accurate. The kids may not have known that they were being asked about something perceived as negative by the school and may have thought they would get brownie points for saying they had seen questions like that before. They may have thought it was a casual question, like if they were starting a unit on Siberian tigers and the teacher asked, "How many of you have seen a Siberian tiger before?" Hands might shoot up -- "I have! I have!" -- even if it wasn't quite accurate.

I doubt that the assistant principal was planning any particular action, even if the question was asked as stated. Maybe the AP just wanted to get a general sense of how much prepping may have gone on, out of curiosity. I don't think that kids could be penalized for doing something that their parents asked them to do, and there would be no way for the AP to prove what children's scores would have been without the prepping. [/quote]

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