The Pineapple and the Hare

[seventwofour]

Sample test question from New York State Exam: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...neapple-question-on-state-exam_n_1440942.html


Just another example of how dumb the emphasis on standardized testing is, especially in its current format.

 

[TownieDeac]

I assume the answer is cause they were annoyed. WTF kinda question is that?

 

[DeaconSlim2.0]

 

[DeaconBrews]

 

[PilotDeac]

This is how i feel about that

 

[WFFaithful]

Yet stuff like this decides which students pass, whether schools get funding or are forced to close, whether people are fired, etc. High stakes testing undermines education.

 

[deacdiggler]

Wheres the lol wut guy when we need him.

 

[quadrupledeac]

Clearly they ate the pineapple because they wanted to. And the moose was the wisest one by default because he knew pineapples don't have sleeves. ( owl was not in the story, hare wasted all his energy racing an inanimate object, and the crow was clearly wrong about his reverse psychology hypothesis) Duh!

 

[DistrictDeacon]

Yet stuff like this decides which students pass, whether schools get funding or are forced to close, whether people are fired, etc. High stakes testing undermines education.

This is what happens when MBA's run school districts and test creation is outsourced to monopolistic non-educators.

 

[DistrictDeacon]

Daniel Pinkwater responds (and calls the testing company "money-grubbing bitches"):

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/201...n-pineapple-exam-nonsense-on-top-of-nonsense/

 

[tigerswood]

Clearly they ate the pineapple because they wanted to. And the moose was the wisest one by default because he knew pineapples don't have sleeves. ( owl was not in the story, hare wasted all his energy racing an inanimate object, and the crow was clearly wrong about his reverse psychology hypothesis) Duh!

Agree about Mr. Moose, but I would suggest they ate it because they were hungry. The race supposedly took several hours, so at least the hare was definitely hungry.

 

[DeacdeTejas]

I have trouble believing this is real. It just cant be. I would have ripped up my test or given up there

 

[IamThunderbolt]

seriously, the whole thing reads like a mad lib