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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many assessment are poorly worded and deliberately ambiguous. This occurs primarily when teachers use off-the-shelf, publisher generated test questions. Knowledge is knowledge and one should be able to attain those same facts from any source. Publishers however word their questions in such a way that if the students have not memorized the exact phraseology used in their textbook students have title chance of answering the questions correctly.

Quality instructors write their own assessments or edit test bank questions to remove ambiguities.

Poor and lazy instructors barely read the questions and answers they cut and paste into assessments before they are assigned. They then proclaim indignation when they are not universally adored by student's and parents alike. [/quote]

Those ambiguous assessments with poorly worded questions are a key reason we fled MCPS. My child's independent school had its open house today and I was able to sit through two classes. I was BLOWN AWAY by the quality of the teaching. My son and I discussed it all evening. And reading this thread, I realize  I really need to email the teachers to thank them.[/quote]

Researcher here. My kids' MCPCs teachers never relied on off-the-shelf assessments, ambiguously worded or otherwise. We tried private for a few years and left after the "social studies" teacher who told us during the patent conference that she didn't like social studies so she was going to teach haiku for six weeks instead. So I'm not saying teachers are perfect. I am saying it's wrong to generalize, about either public or private teachers. I respect them all.[/quote]

This is the PP. I wasn't generalizing, I was relating my own experience. 
That said, it is clear there is a large range in quality among private schools.[/quote]

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