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Chuck the tests

Submitted by Deborah Hazen on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 7:19am.

Why try to reformat multiple choice tests? If our goal is to get people thinking, if we want to value thinking--not a set of regurgitated "right" answers--then why not just migrate to portfolio assessment? Is is because it would be too hard for teachers to use portfolio assessment in a class of 38? Well, we all know that the class of 38 isn't a good idea either.

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