Friday, February 13, 2009

CATS Open-Response Writing Questions – Your Number is Up!

I am amazed by confused news articles popping up around Kentucky supporting retention of open-response questions in the state’s CATS school accountability tests. How can so many intelligent people be falling for this CATS bait-and-switch deal? Even if these questions do test higher order thinking, that knowledge isn’t being effectively transmitted back to schools. To learn why that happens, read on.

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