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...waive his right for a speedy trial if he wants to play the entire season. But can you imagine playing basketball and taking interviews, day after day, with a trial for your life hovering in the horizon? I mean, my God! I get nervous thinking about my eight-page essay due next week! Pushing a life-altering court case out of your mind is certainly impossible, no matter where you are or what you’re doing...
...Barker Center’s Thompson Parlor echoed with a heated discussion of race, equality and athletics yesterday, as Early read his most recently composed essay entitled “The Next Level: Race, Sports and Affirmative Action in the United States...
...other reason the writing test will be less reliable is that human beings, not machines, will grade the essay. In June, I participated in a mock grading session with members of the College Board's writing-development committee. We read 15 essays by kids who had taken a pretest; they had been given 25 minutes to write on a topic I can't reveal, since it may appear on a future SAT. We scored the essays on a scale of 1 to 6, 1 meaning "very poor" organization and development and 6 meaning the student organized her thoughts, displayed "facility...
...grading also rewarded the blandest essays. I gave a 5 to a kid who had written a funny, subtle first-person account of a friend who had slacked off his studies and begun dressing "like a pimp" in order to impress the cool kids. The other graders gave the essay 2s and 3s; there was one 4. (Our scores didn't count for anything. On a real test, the raw 1 to 6 score will be combined with the raw score from the multiple-choice grammar segment and translated into an overall writing score on the traditional...
...they don't understand how a 3 differs from a 4. In response, the board is conducting further studies of the test and developing more consistent, less pliable 1-to-6 scoring points. Graders hired by an Iowa City, Iowa, company, Pearson Educational Measurement, will actually score the essays. Pearson trains its scorers to follow the 1-to-6 guide closely. Two of them will read each essay, and on the basis of the firm's experience with exams in Texas and elsewhere, they will disagree only 30% of the time. When they do, a third--and, if necessary, fourth...