But when the kids come out of the test and report that 1/2 the questions were on Greek and Roman history...would you think that the "American History" class the next year would follow the previous year's curriculum?
You have a good point. They would combine American and British history into one class in order to cover more questions on the test. If this is undesirable, then the test is faulty.
If it were a test on world history and had the same number of American questions as British, would it matter whether the student took American History or British History?
how to draw
When I was taught to draw, I was told to put the eyes in the middle of the face. Do you think it would be difficult to test this knowledge in an objective way?
Because knowledge of rhetoical games is not a good measure of thinking.
Can't critical thinking be demonstrated by identifying logical fallacies committed by a passage?
when you test specific things and tie an infividual's renumeration to trst results teachers will focus on what is on the trst to the detriment of other things that would be useful to know.
Shouldn't those things also be on the test?
a kid who has a broad understanding of world history and why things happened, but who doesn't have dates memorized, could get high grades in essay assignments but tank on standardized tests.
Why can't the whys be tested?
critical thinking
Why can't the student's knowledge of logical fallacies be tested?
creativity
Some say creativity can in fact be tested.
or learning skills.
Learning skills such as critical thinking and creativity? (See above.)
Could you provide an example of something that teachers should teach but that cannot be tested?
Should we also bill the person who started the fire?
If so, wouldn't it be double billing to bill that person and also the drone operators?
By that logic, a monitor also isn't an output device, unless you're using it to program a Timex Datalink.
3. Further testing of struts in stock found one that failed at 2,000 pounds of force
I think it will work out substantially cheaper in the long run to test every strut rather than to go crazy with the material specification.
That reminds me of the joke about the boy scout who would test all his matches and save the ones that lit successfully.
Except into the turning lane.
Someday there will be little robots that swarm out after an explosion to quickly gather up all the people bits, identify which bits belong to which person, 3D print any missing or uselessly damaged parts, and glue them all back together, all within 5 minutes before the brain starts to suffer from hypoxia.
Imagine getting blown to bits one day, then the next day you're right back on the front line.
Maybe they could put a few of these into airliners also, made out of the same stuff as the black boxes.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
