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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a HS teacher and I don't allow retakes nor does my department as a general policy. We are measuring mastery. If you know exactly what you got wrong and then retake a test that artificially inflates your grade based on that, that's not mastery.

I also get really annoyed with kids who receive an assignment back with points marked off and want to make corrections to resubmit. No. I am assessing what you KNOW and can show me you know. Kids really really seem to struggle with the notion that they may need to work to improve. I am not trying to see that you can redo an assignment after specifically being told what you did wrong.[/quote]

IF the point is mastery..why not let the second test show that.  Or is the only important thing mastery on Monday rather than Friday?    [/quote]

Pp, re-read the teacher's last sentence.  [/quote]

There's a HUGE difference between someone who actually knows the material and can answer unknown questions about it on any unseen test and someone who has seen a test, seen the questions*, and then goes away and comes back and can answer the questions correctly.

* even if the teachers change the questions (and I hope they do), they need to be similar in style/complexity as the ones originally given. In practice, this means changing names and numbers but essentially keeping the question the same.

That's the reason why having seen previous exams (either in a leak/"cheating" situation or just during normal study sessions if the old tests have been legitimately released) is such a huge advantage. People simply stop studying when they think they could answer the questions on a test like the one they think they're going to get. If they haven't seen the test, they need to study WAY more.

- previously straight A student who has also taught classes, created exams and graded exams at college level[/quote]

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