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Re: TI-92
Posted:
Mar 30, 1996 7:30 PM
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>Dave is asking a question whose answer lots of us would like to see.
>-Jerry Uhl
Dave Slomer's question:
>> Has ETS put in writing that QWERTY-phobia is because of test security
>> on the mult choice part?? Criminey (when did you last see THAT word in
>> print!), do they think kids can't encode A=1, B=2, etc. and use ANY
>> calculator with memory to smuggle out answers? (I doubt it.)
To my knowledge, the phobia is based on hearsay and
remains undocumented. Nonetheless, I believe it is real.
The problem isn't sumggling out *answers*, but questions.
Students can type lots faster on a machine with a QWERTY
keyboard than on any of the allowed GCs.
One other issue for College Board is the problem of
the technological savvy of test administrators. Open
the door on the '92 and it becomes a larger problem
than just letting one more machine in. Note that currently
*scientific* calculators are *not* allowed on the exams...
precisely for this reason, I suspect.
Having said that, my guess is that an exam *could*
be written so that students with a TI-92, or HP200LX
or some other palmtop (or even a laptop) would have no
particular advantage over other less well endowed students.
Then the problem becomes colleges giving credit for
such an exam (which feature of AP is the bankroll of
the program).
Mark Howell
"Speaking for all those who have ever had the slightest
contact with me...except those at ETS and The College Board."
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