Reply to Why are people so upset about Common Core?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Why are people so upset about Common Core?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Kids are going to be asked to explain their reasoning. If their reasoning is sound, great! If not, it's a problem. [/quote]

Yes.  With a multiple choice test.  Wake up.[/quote]

?????

One of the ways in which the new assessments (both PARCC and Smarter Balanced) differ from predecessors such as the MSA or DC-CAS, is that they'll have a higher percentage of "constructed response" questions that aren't multiple choice, and are scored by hand.

I believe that the question to top poster was answering is, if a student is asked to show or explain their reasoning on a constructed response item, is there just one way to do so or would any solution that exhibited sound reasoning and came to the correct answer be allowed?  [/quote]

Yes.   I was going to say that the PARCC and other tests won't start until 3rd grade, and at that point, there will be a greater focus on just getting the right answer (no matter how you do it) but I looked at the third grade PARCC sample math test and saw that kids were asked to shade in an equivalent fraction to 1/3 (in an area broken into 6 pieces) and then were also asked to explain why the part that they shaded in (hopefully, 2/6) was equal to 1/3

I'll admit, I think that is a hard question to answer, and I do wish that kids weren't asked to explain such basic math questions.  So, although I do support COmmon Core standards, I think this type of question should be asked a different way -- I think that is a valid criticism of the PARCC.

However, most of the PARCC isn't made up of such questions.

[/quote]

That doesn't seem like a particularly hard question.

Because if you have 1/3 and you cut it in half you'll have 2 smaller pieces and 6 of those pieces will fit in the whole.

[/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