Discontinued Exams

Millancad
Fri, 15 May 2009 21:25:21 +0000

That would be in the beginning, but look at it from a historical perspective. A lot of students don’t take ab and jump straight to bc. Unless bc is an explicit pre-requisite to mvc, eventually kids will go straight into that, and having to learn 3 semesters of math in 1 or 2 semesters is a daunting task.

Also, you misinterpreted what I wrote. I said that if they exam were proof-based, then a lot of kids would fail. Testing MVC how they test ab/bc, however, would not reflect the depth of knowledge that a student should have for the course.



An0maly, there are a lot of AP tests that don’t cover the amount of information that a student should learn. Unless you’ve take AP Art History, you don’t understand how little a test can cover. In AP Art History, you memorize hundreds upon hundreds of images, nearing 1000. But of course all of these can’t be tested. Nonetheless the classes still cover the information. So even if it’s impossible for the test to show that the student has learned all of the information s/he should have, the student does learn that info in class and the student’s class grade shows whether or not s/he understands.
But I do sort of think that APMVC is a bad idea. I skipped from 10th grade pre-calc to 11th grade AP BC, so it would be nice to not have to go to UCinci to take multivariable, but it just seems like a bad idea.