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...It’s a painful topic for people, so they put it off until it’s too late,” Coburn said...
...measurement error with a small number of items. (Think about it this way: if you taste only one dish served by a chef, you can't judge him with as much precision as if you eat everything on the menu.) Even worse, each test will feature just one essay topic; if you retake the test and get a topic you really love, your score could shoot up--a clear example of low reliability...
...that human beings, not machines, will grade the essay. In June, I participated in a mock grading session with members of the College Board's writing-development committee. We read 15 essays by kids who had taken a pretest; they had been given 25 minutes to write on a topic I can't reveal, since it may appear on a future SAT. We scored the essays on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 meaning "very poor" organization and development and 6 meaning the student organized her thoughts, displayed "facility" with language and "insightfully addressed the writing task." Such standards...
While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...
...some though, the draw was less Donahue than the topic...