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Then in early September, a playful but half-serious 1,300-word essay on the possibility landed on the front page of the Globe's Focus section, which is devoted to commentary and analysis. Over the course of the next three weeks, the Globe printed letters from readers outraged by the suggestion--including one who wrote that a "moral leper" should not head Harvard...
...Real Australia," Robert Hughes wrote an erudite and insightful essay about his homeland [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. We visited Sydney last year and came away feeling that Australians, besides being the most friendly and open folks you'll ever meet, share a special affinity with Americans. We want to dispel any notion floated by Hughes that Australians may not be the greatest people on earth, because our experience tells us that they very well may be. NACZ AND CATHE URBANSKI Pennington...
...this is wrapped up in an essay, a section participation grade, a mid-term and a final exam...
...score disparity points to another persistent criticism of the Texas test: that it is simply too easy. Its format, almost entirely multiple choice, is less demanding than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous...
Good tests should include a mix of essay, problem- solving, short-answer and even some multiple-choice questions. On math quizzes, students should be able to show how they arrived at their answer. The tests widely used today often rely too much on multiple-choice questions, which encourage guessing rather than thinking. Also, they frequently ignore the importance of knowledge. Today's history tests, for example, seldom expect the student to know any history--sometimes derided as "mere facts"--but only to be able to read charts, graphs and cartoons...