Posted on 09/02/2010 5:42:16 PM PDT by markomalley
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Oregon students will be permitted to use their computers' spell check feature when taking the state writing test, state education department officials said.
The test judges the seventh-grade and high school students' essays, written in response to a prompt, on six criteria, including organization and sentence fluency -- but the single more important part of their score is English conventions, which count for twice as much as any other criterion, The Oregonian newspaper in Portland reported Thursday.
A computer's spell checking feature can correct errors in spelling and capitalization.
"The increasing use of computers with spell checkers for communication in the work place, college, postsecondary training and the military," were cited as reasons for the policy change in Salem.
Now all they need is translation software too! ;-)
I remember the teachers defending the use of calculators in the classroom......afraid that the students couldn’t do basic math and wanted to cover that up IMO....declared that there was no good reason for students to know multiplication or division, etc...
FAIL!
Doo yew meen thaht sum kidz at publik skoolz mite not no how too spel? Simplee Shokking! Hoo wood hav thot?
Using the system intelligently is half the battle. Obviously it cannot identify every miss steak.
Where's the prblem with that?
The entire test sight can use the spell check, and if something is wrong they can simply site the above ruling in their defense, otherwise their papers would would be a cite to see.
Computers can be of great assistance; they can also be used to create a society of idiots who could not function were there no computers.
Neither hear nor their. Wear is it?
Weather or knot, ewe due it wright won't madder
No problem being a moron these days. Heck, recent history proves that even if they’re congenital idiots and utterly illiterate, they may wind up being president.
Yes but, how would they be able to stop students from using spellcheck? There are many ways possible.
The old fashioned method is to conduct a proctored test with pencil and paper. Handwritten answers and essay questions. Slide rules for the rough stuff like square roots, cube roots and transcendental functions. A 4 function calculator was over $100 when I was a freshman in college. I hauled along a slide rule to get my square roots close, then tweaked them by successive approximation to be a good as the ritzy folks who had an HP35.
Can they use an Excel spreadsheet for their math test?
Obviously this a racial discrimination ploy, unless they are supplying optional Ebonics Spell Check along with the standard English Spell Check.
Obviously this a racial discrimination ploy, unless they are supplying optional Eubonics Spell Check along with the standard English Spell Check.
I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt, .........Olny srmat poelpe can raed this. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raedit wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervery lteter by istlef, but hte word as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmoranntt
WHAAAAAAT? Oh for criminy sake.
“Weather or knot, ewe due it wright won’t madder”
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OMG that totally made me LOL!
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