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Being asked for advice about whether a grammar test has been wrongly graded is one thing, Geoff Pullum decided, but demanding the answer as quickly as possible is quite another.
“The current national practice of high stakes testing has put remarkable demands on the students, teachers and principals to achieve high test scores,” explains Phillip Jackson, Executive Director at ...
Commentary The Semi-Colon Still Is Not Your Small Intestine: Why the Bar Exam Should Test Grammar The court can assure that every bar candidate will be able to competently draft a will, interpret ...
We wanted to see if a large language model had the same sense of meaning of word combinations, so we built a test that measured this ability, using noun-noun pairs for which grammar rules would be ...
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a standardized test designed to measure basic critical reading, math and writing skills. It is also one of the more popular forms of measurement at major colleges ...
Times tables tests should be scrapped and grammar exams “stripped back”, teaching unions are urging the Government. Ministers are being urged to cut down the number of tests in primary schools ...
The nation-wide testing took place at 1,569 schools, of which 1,446 were primary schools, 113 were eight-year grammar schools, and 10 were sport eight-year grammar schools. Pupils who gained at least ...