This-essay is   a8410091.htm   which is available  at the
web-site   www.essayz.com.   See more notes at the bottom.
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
By-Months                By-Years                 By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One
==========================================================
                     %TESTS GRADES VALUES OBJECTIVE 841009

     Value judgments which are not objective are  involved
in the design and grading of all tests.

     A  value  judgment  leads some people to  try  to  be
completely  objective in their design and grading of their
tests.    As a result they do not encourage their students
to   learn   what  can  not  be  tested  for  and   graded
objectively.

     Value judgments are involved in deciding which topics
to emphasize or exclude from tests,  and by what procedure
to make such choices.  To randomly select the items from a
collection  is to pretend that they are  all are of  equal
importance.

     To   refuse to tell students what is highly valued---
is to  affirm that students who can guess (and study) what
the professor  will  put  on  tests---should  be rewarded;
regardless  of the material's relevance to  the  students.
Or else it is to affirm that  students who sacrifice their
balance  and   integrity   to  try  to  learn   everything
which   might  appear on the  test---should  be  rewarded.
Which is the better?

     To decide that only very few students should pass the
course  regardless of the overall level of performance  of
the  whole  class---is a value  judgment;  even  though it
is hidden  in  the design and grading of  tests   designed
to "maintain high standards"    through objective testing.
so also  is the reverse decision---to stroke students with
easy  grading standards;    even though that  decision  is
hidden  in  language  which  obscures the  nature  of  the
decision.

     Objective   testing  is  usually   more   pretentions
than  real.   Professors need to give up their  compulsive
need  to   pretend   that  they  are   being    objective.
Professors  need  to  openly affirm  the  value  judgments
which  they  are  making in their design  and  grading  of
tests.    Were they to do this,  then they  could  be held
accountable   for  the   value   judgments   they    make.
Perhaps  this is why they continue to try  to appear to be
behaving objectively!  Honesty would be more integrative.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
  www.essayz.com       Search for Integrity and Honesty        
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================

Lines beginning with a percent sign are  KEYWORDS  for use
in ESSAY-System Searches.  Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ =  a  means 99,
@ =  b  means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.

Links to date-adjacent essays are near  page top & bottom.

   
Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER
near  the top or bottom  of a web page of essayz.com
 
                    
               1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com
            2. Find brief-essays via keywords
           3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION
          4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK
 
            5. GoTo Action & Information Center
           6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month
          7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts
              8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE

This-essay is   a8410091.htm   which is available  at the
web-site   www.essayz.com.  These 5 lines echo top lines.
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
By-Months                By-Years                 By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One