Sentences with phrase «tests give them passages»

Rather than assessing kids on material they've actually been taught, the tests give them passages and questions on a seemingly random assortment of topics.

Not exact matches

To these passages, apply the rigorous historic test methods previously given.

The researchers then gave the students tests that asked questions about a passage on a science topic that hadn't been presented in class.

In further tests on 130 passages by known authors that had been deliberately doctored, Canter found that 65 per cent gave correlation values above 0.9.

For example, a typical question on the old Nevada 4th grade English Language Arts test would have given students a short passage to read, then asked them to find a simile in the passage.

Then they were all given a reading test with passages about baseball.

As someone who taught AP for years, we were always in the game of «figuring out the test» in order to give our students the best chance at passage.

Additionally, a subsample of students was given informal inventories of their reading knowledge (consisting of lists of words to be defined and oral reading passages from the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty test).

Instead of asking students to write an essay about their dream vacation, for example, a test might give them two sophisticated passages to read and ask them to make detailed comparisons.

So, for example, if students have learned about World War II, and you test their comprehension or analytical skills by giving them a passage about the War in Vietnam, they may or may not do well.

Instead, they're constructed like standardized tests, giving students a passage to read and asking them questions about it.

A standardized reading test, for example, gives students a randomly selected passage and then asks questions to assess how well they understood it.

As long as we're stuck with reading tests, how about at least giving teachers some clue about what content the reading passages will cover, so that their students will have a fighting chance of displaying their reading «skills»?

Knowing a little about Faulkner's writing, I surmised that the WritersDiet Test would give him a poor score, so I ran the test on a few passages from As I Lay DyTest would give him a poor score, so I ran the test on a few passages from As I Lay Dytest on a few passages from As I Lay Dying.

The most important thing to remember when taking a verbal reasoning test is that you should base your answers strictly on the information contained within the passage; do not make assumptions and do not draw on information that is not given in the passage.