Chapter six of Fair Isn’t Always Equal makes its content very narrow, yet very useful. Today’s classrooms are very test-focused, as this is a relatively quick way of getting a read on how well somebody knows material. This chapter gives a number of tips on how to craft effective, fair test questions. This is a chapter that I will keep open next to me as I put together a test, because the things it advocates are clearly and undeniably beneficial and the things it warns against are things that I myself remember disliking when I was in school. For example, I remember very well taking tests where the questions were badly written and didn’t connect well to what we had learned. I will never put my students in a tough spot like that.
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