This week pupils took a reading test that led to school leaders calling for testing reform - but what was the problem with the paper? Tes investigates the numbers behind the words
“Let’s bottle nuts when you finish reading,” she said in Esan. Jatto shook his head. He had so much homework to do. “I’ll never finish reading.” Jatto said “never” in English because there was no word for never in Esan. “What’s ‘never’?” she asked. Jatto cleared his...
Exploring intertextuality: a study of a teacher's implementation of the Key Stage 1 reading SATs The use of Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs) to test six- and seven-yearold children is a contentious feature of the English and Welsh education systems. This study investigated a teacher's impleme...
A 2015 analysis fromInside Higher Edfound that in each of the three parts of the SAT (reading, writing and language and math), the lowest average scores were among students from families who make less than $20,000 in family income, while the highest averages were among students from famili...
Critical reading (40 questions) -- These measure your ability to read and think carefully about a single passage or pair of related passages. There are also three types of math questions on the SAT I: Five-choice multiple-choice (35 questions) Four-choice multiple-choice (15 questions that ...
So what score would you get if you guessed correctly on 13 Reading and Writing questions and 9 Math questions? The answer to this question is… a little complicated. One of the major ways the new digital SAT is unlike the old paper version is that it usesadaptive testing.This means that...
“ ‘Why are you reading about that,’ ” Greg Smith, who served as Levine’s assistant, recalled the conductor asking him. “ ‘It’s all politics. If they were giving that money to arts.’ . . . He took [the paper] out of my hands.” ...