{"id":110,"date":"2005-08-23T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-11-19T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:20:02","slug":"online-testing-ya-gotta-be-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/online-testing-ya-gotta-be-kidding-110","title":{"rendered":"Online testing - ya gotta be kidding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article about online testing in Oregon has holes in it that you could drive through: \"Online testing helped raise scores\" [Unfortunately, the article no longer exists.].<\/p>\n<p>At least the article has...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State officials attribute the gains <strong>in part <\/strong> to the use of a home-grown, web-based testing service<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When will people realise that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Education is a multi-variable thing (Why are the scores higher? Are they asking the same questions? What are the conditions under which the tests were conducted? Was the a change in the teaching\/learning strategy that went with the online testing? Were the students \"prepped\" in a different way for the online tests? How easy is it to 'beat the system'?)<\/li>\n<li>Multiple choice testing has many limitations (I gather the online tests were MCQ since the results were delivered \"immediately\"<\/li>\n<li>How many attempts were the students allowed? (the \"I'll try my luck\" syndrome)<\/li>\n<li>A test score is only a vague indication of learning and is often a better indication of test-taking skills<\/li>\n<li>All educational statistics is correct, plus\/minus 50%...!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>High scores do not always imply learning and likewise, low scores do not always imply no learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article about online testing in Oregon has holes in it that you could drive through: \"Online testing helped raise scores\" [Unfortunately, the article no longer exists.]. At least the article has... State officials attribute the gains in part to the use of a home-grown, web-based testing service When will people realise that: Education is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}