Georgetown Law professor is fired after saying black students are bottom of her class almost every semester

[Loren Pechtel]

If sports analogies are the most biased part of standardized testing, then the tests are fine.

I would be rather upset to find a mistake like my example on the SAT. At the high end of the scale every point matters.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Why assume sports are the worst offender questions? There's a larger category of which sports are a member. It is illogical to presuppose every other subset of a superset is insignificant and just expect everyone else to go with it. This is like saying that "if old ladies dying, falling from the Titanic are the worst of it, then the Titanic is fine." Old ladies dying is part of a larger set of people dying.

 

[barbos]

For an in-class situation one I recall reading about. Physics problem, it gave the details of the stadium and how the ball was hit and asked if it was a home run. Foreign student was stumped, asked the teacher about it. The teacher was working through the problem with him, he understood everything--so what's the problem? "What's a home run?" Had that been a test rather than homework he would have had a 50% chance of getting it wrong due to a lack of sports knowledge rather than a lack of physics knowledge.

LOL, that's exactly the problem I got on a test in graduate school. Since they provided height of the fence I figured out they are talking about hitting it over the fence.