Re: Your feelings on Praxis testing

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The hardest test I ever took was my Master's orals. I think
they only asked 4 questions in 2 hours, but with each
question they probed and probed until they discovered where
my knowledge fell short.

If we really want to test students, this is the way to do
it. Of course, doing so for a class of 30, inconsistency in
grading, etc., make this impractical.

I was a math major and took the Praxis 2 math test. I
thought it was a decent test, but it is basically at the
freshman math level. It did help to take courses in matrix
algebra, statistics, finite math, and so on, but each of
these was tested at the most basic level.

Meanwhile, the study guides for Praxis 2 math, including
ETS's own guide, are deceptively easy - everyone told me
they would ask questions on the exam much harder than those
study guides. When I asked around who had the most
challenging study guide problems, they referred me to the
guy who runs www.praxisiimath.com . I will say that his
problems are closer in difficulty to the actual Praxis 2
math exam.

But yes, you can pretty much pass the exam with a decent
study guide and a freshman education. Is this all the
powers that be expect of teachers in a high school subject?  

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