Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Testing Fairness As a rule in Ms. Walker's class, before each exam each student is provided with a study guide complete with questions to answer. To ensure that the students even look at the study guide, they must submit the answers to the study guide on the day of the exam. Students who do not have the completed study guide must submit the study guide, along with taking a modified, advanced version of the test. According to a parent, this policy is unfair, and the study guide rule should not exist. Is this an unfair rule and practice? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think this is a fair practice because it would teach students to complete the study guide before the next test so they would not have to take the harder version of the test. I might add to the policy that students had an opportunity to turn the study guide in the next day to retest with the regular version of the test to earn some additional points if the grades were consistently low.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) No The suggested solution is relevant to the case No The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement No The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue No The suggested solution is original No Comments: I do not agree. Giving the students who didn't take the study guide a harder test doubly assures their failure. Rated On: October 19, 2014 8:48 pm Rated By: SuGaNe