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"I'll bet dollars to donuts the questions are mostly subjective rather than objective with unequivical answers."

If it is like the majority of standardized tests developed in this country, just the opposit is true: most of the questions would have been objective, multiple choice questions, with a few essay or short answer items. It is in the content of the material about which the questions are asked where you would look for propaganda.

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"If it is like the majority of standardized tests developed in this country, just the opposit is true: most of the questions would have been objective, multiple choice questions, with a few essay or short answer items."
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Guys, As far as I have been able to find, this was true until a few years {10-50} or so ago. In Maryland, a "sample" of the "Maryland State Performance Assessment Program {M.S.P.A.P.} questions given out by the school board had 2/3s of the questions that were subjective. They called for idealogical conclusions rather than concrete answers {questions without answers}. In Maryland, a few years ago {and probably still} they were pushing "inventive" spelling to "encourage the students to write what was on their minds." State school superintendant Nancy Grasmick stated publicly that this was to "separate those children with 'higher order' thinking skills."

Two schools in "underprivileged" areas of Baltimore were afforded the "Calvert Curriculum" {A home school program used for a hundred years by ambassadors and soldiers in foreign countries to teach their children who routinely excelled above excellence} in the setting of "those who were 'qualified' to teach." {The Public Schools}. The children, on California "standardized" tests excelled. One school, The Carter G. Whitson{?} elementary School, scored 35 points above the "national average". But, When Nancy Grasick's M.S.P.A.P. test was administered, the children of BOTH schools "scored down next to the Bottom of Baltimore City Schools {Among the lowest in the country} in testing.

Now, this "performance" test is given in order for the State to make "recommendations" as to where the students might better be placed in order to "better place the students for a more productive future." Is there A-N-Y___B-O-D-Y out there who has ANY doubt as to where the state has PREdetermined that these "disadvantaged" {95% and better black students who recieve 'federal subsidies for breakfast and lunch", which is the criteria for the "disadvantaged" classification} WILL be placed for "their" "productive" future??? A-N-Y___B-O-D-Y??????

In short, after much study, I have found that what passes for education today is pure, unadulterated EVIL!!! And that, that evil is being perpetrated DELIBERATELY!! Peace and love, George.

most of the questions would have been objective, multiple choice questions, with a few essay or short answer items. It is in the content of the material about which the questions are asked where you would look for propaganda.

this is true