| "when I started teaching 10 years ago (well, just about) the two high schools in my district only had a final exam for each grade. There were quarterly "test days" set aside at the end of each marking period for teachers to use for marking period assessments, but it was left to us to use them as we saw fit. The final exams were designed by each teacher for his or her classes, but had to be "comparable" with the other teachers of the same type of class (e.g., Senior CP English). About five years later, the district added the midterm exam and now required that both exams be EXACTLY the same for all classes in both schools at the same level. This, of course, required us to create generic exams that only covered basic skills or broad subjects because all of us were still teaching texts in whatever order we saw fit according to the syllabi we created. One year later, we had to select ONE text |
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