Thank you Michael. So, the level of difficulty would be factored into the final score? So, 2 people can get 80% correct on SAT and one would end up with 600, let's say, and the other with 700?
The dumbing down wasn't referring to the question but either the leaving out of a section, or shortening the reading.....but I can't remember.
Think of it like an eye exam. An eye doctor doesn't make everyone start at the hugest letters and work their way all the way down the chart until the letters are too small for them to read. Instead, he starts on a row somewhere in the middle of the chart, and if the person can read those letters easily, he moves to a lower row, while if the person cannot read the letters at all, he moves to a higher row. Everyone he tests in a day may attempt to read a different number of letters, and different sizes of letters, but at the end of the day the doctor will have fitted everyone with the right prescription.
Something like that. And it is the test taker's own right or wrong answers that lead to the level of difficultly of their exam as a whole. No need to give all of the easy questions to a person who is acing the hard ones, or all of the hard questions to a person who is struggling with the easier ones. But the person struggling with the eaiser ones is getting a lower score.
Thank you Michael. So, the level of difficulty would be factored into the final score? So, 2 people can get 80% correct on SAT and one would end up with 600, let's say, and the other with 700?
The dumbing down wasn't referring to the question but either the leaving out of a section, or shortening the reading.....but I can't remember.
Think of it like an eye exam. An eye doctor doesn't make everyone start at the hugest letters and work their way all the way down the chart until the letters are too small for them to read. Instead, he starts on a row somewhere in the middle of the chart, and if the person can read those letters easily, he moves to a lower row, while if the person cannot read the letters at all, he moves to a higher row. Everyone he tests in a day may attempt to read a different number of letters, and different sizes of letters, but at the end of the day the doctor will have fitted everyone with the right prescription.
Something like that. And it is the test taker's own right or wrong answers that lead to the level of difficultly of their exam as a whole. No need to give all of the easy questions to a person who is acing the hard ones, or all of the hard questions to a person who is struggling with the easier ones. But the person struggling with the eaiser ones is getting a lower score.