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...patient, a baby boy with a 102 degrees fever. For a child under two months, such a fever can signal a life- threatening infection. Nearly 30% of doctors responding did not ask the child's age and so failed to recommend that the youngster even come in for an exam. Richard Kessel, executive director of New York State's Consumer Protection Board, which is looking into the service, notes that patients may be spending money on what they think is a final answer, when "many will still have to go to a doctor and pay additional bills." Kovachevich says that...
...does this sound as an exam question? A fifth-grader in San Diego County decided to figure out how far a ball would travel if it rolled down a ramp at a steady 5 ft. per sec. for a year (assuming that friction on the shallow incline counteracted the acceleration of gravity.) His work page is a maze of multiplication, punctuated by arrows explaining things like "Here I found out how many seconds there are in a year." His final answer -- 29,863 miles and 1,108.8 yds. -- is accompanied by a proud statement: "I chose this paper because...
...child's exercise is an example of what is known as the portfolio approach to testing, which derives its name from the collection of work assembled by artists and architects to show off the true scope of their talent. In addition to taking formal exams, a portfolio student selects his or her best work during an entire year of study, and at term's end explains the choices. The portfolio approach places emphasis on overall accomplishment rather than ability to conquer a battery of tests. And students learn the virtues of improvement as they revise and embellish drafts of their...
Critics of ethnic bias can point to such celebrated examples as the use of the word regatta on a College Board exam of a few years past -- a term that had little to do with experience in the inner city. Educational Testing Service, which administers the College Boards, now reviews each exam question for such assumptions. However, the desire to meet minority concerns has also led to such skewing practices as "race norming," the comparison of test scores only within minority groups rather than across the board. That can lead to a subtle undermining of minority achievement. It is, indeed...
Every year, Nationals takes place just after first-semester exams, and Worlds amidst the heat of second-semester midterms. In 1988, Wylie returned from Olympic tryouts to take a Governments 30 exam. This year, Wylie partially blames his rough run at the World Championships on the fact that he had to leave for Munich the same day that he was taking a Japanese language midterm...