The strangest thing to me (Chana) about being a teacher is being the one who writes the tests. I don't know why that freaks me out so much. Lectures, homework, assignments - no problems. But tests... they can trap you up. I've written a couple of not so good ones this semester. On one of my tests, the class of almost 60 got about 50 As. Hmmm.... guess THAT one was too easy! On another one of my tests, I had so many ambiguities that EVEN I kept getting confused over what to accept as a right answer!
I think I'm starting to improve my test writing skills. But today, one funny thing happened on the test I gave my students. It was a reading comprehension test about several short passages - one being "The Parable of the Good Samaritan." I had previously told my students the story about how Josh was riding his bicycle to Wal-mart one day and hit a patch of sand in the road that caused his bike to fall over, him with it. He ended up with a slightly cut and bloody knee and was on the ground for almost a minute, with several people watching him but no one offering to help him.
On the test I asked "What true-life story did I tell in class that relates to the parable?"
The answers are hilarious. It's like a game of "Telephone" gone very, very bad. My students wrote everything from Josh crashing his scooter to crashing his car, Josh AND me crashing our bikes into each other, Josh on the ground bleeding and bleeding, unable to get up... with crowds of people varying in number from one or two onlookers to twenty, thirty, or more!
Soooo funny. I give the same test tomorrow. Wonder if he'll end up in the Emergency Room.
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