Interesting - but if it’s a multiple choice test, the student should be able to answer the questions based on the material in the selection, independent of outside facts or opinions. That’s a different skill from source criticism, historical analysis, or other forms of test response.
On comprehension exercises, I always remind my students to answer based only on what is in the reading selection, not considering anything else they know, believe, or assume. This is actually a useful thing to be able to do. When I was a Taxation and Regulatory Compliance Specialist, I had to read the Revenue Codes and apply them, based only on that content, irrespective of how idiotic they were.
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I’ve had more than one college class where you had to “write what the professor wanted you to say” rather than writing the truth. Such is life in the liberal world of education where dissent and free speech are forbidden.
I have worked in standardized testing for most of my career (primarily on scoring/reporting of results). I remember reading thru a high school social studies test for an unnamed blue state. I couldn’t believe the lines of questioning...I would have failed miserably because I was livid just reading the stupid thing.
Kind of sad Conservative Teacher can’t spell “heroes”.