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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Suppose a parent.....

Suppose a parent of one of your students called you today to complain about his/her child's poor performance on your classroom tests. The parent concludes by asking you, "Just how sure are you the fault is in my child and not in your tests?" How would you respond to this parent? What would you think about? Justify your response. My response to a parent who is questioning my tests as a result of their child's failure would depend on the child's academic performance in class. If I had several of my well scoring students who failed the tests, then yes, without a shadow of a doubt, I would go back and revisit the structure and format of the test. However, if the student has not done well on any previous tests, does not participate in class, homework scores are down and so forth, then the student would be in question. In most cases, students test differently. It could be that the student needs another way of testing. Provided none of the cases described above pertains to this student, then I would out a solution with the parent to restructure the test.

1 comment:

Taylor said...: I agree with you that my first solution to the problem would be to look at the students' performance. That is not to say that I would not think I was in the wrong at all, but you are correct when you say that if the student repeatedly does poorly, it is more than likely a result of the student's test taking.; April 22, 2014 at 2:16:00 PM EDT