Also, I bristle at the expectation that teachers should be the ones responsible for coming up with every possible wrong way a question might be answered.
But that's not my expectation. My expectation is that the scoring be spelled out prior to the test. Or,
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. The student got one answer wrong. Unless the quiz is presented up front as a 100% pass/fail, she should only be penalized for her answer to THAT question. Calling her out for not being "clever" enough just seems mean to me.
What Jess Said again.
A vague disclaimer, after all, is nobody's friend.
She wasn't called out for not being clever. She was called out for using textspeak. If she had left it blank or put a "?", she would have probably gotten a little talk about paying more attention or asked if she needed to switch seats because she wasn't seeing/hearing/understanding things.
Clearly we need to make really enormous spiders to take advantage of their silk.
I believe that's why we were developing mutant goats who produced spider silk in their milk. Because REALLY nothing can go wrong with spider-goat hybrids.
Besides, "IDK" barely qualifies as text-speak. It's hardly in the same category as writing like you're Prince ("call me b4 u c him, k?").
Exactly. It's not textspeak, it's not l33t. It's an abbreviation. How is a kid supposed to know that it's an unacceptable acronym?
Yeah, I mean obviously she was getting that question wrong, but making the rest of the answers not count is what is irksome, I think.
Even if that quiz doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things.
It's not textspeak, it's not l33t. It's an abbreviation. How is a kid supposed to know that it's an unacceptable acronym?
Because it's a quiz. In school. Ostensibly for points that count toward your grade. I was a lazy student until I got to college (well, college this time around), but using abbreviations is something that I would have never done. Ever. Not even i.e. or eg..
I see it like writing a paper. Mechanically, the stuff required of a paper might be there. Page numbers, citations, et cetra (hee!). But if the content is crap, I'm going to fail.
I wouldn't use text speak while filling out forms, but I will use abbreviations like "N/A."
::muses on these distinctions::
Now I'm wondering when it stops/starts being either abbreviation and/or textspeak. IDK, to me, is not an abbreviation because I've only encountered it in texting.
