New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams 421
ScentCone writes "New Zealand's Qualification Authority (which sets testing standards for the public schools) is confident that those grading papers will understand the meaning of students' responses, even if they use phone/IM-style text-speak. From the article: 'credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.' Many teachers are not amused, and critics say that the move will devalue NZ's equivalent of a high school diploma." Not to mention that graders will need to be restrained so they don't gouge their own eyes out. While in the medium of text messages, some shorthand might be in order, but I didn't realize that world paper, pencil, and ink shortages were so severe so that text-speak is necessary everywhere.
If they are letting text speak through... (Score:4, Funny)
t3h kn33 b0n3 15 c0nn3ct3d t0 teh th1g|-| b0n3!
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:P (Score:5, Funny)
So... (Score:1, Funny)
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Does this mean... (Score:4, Funny)
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From Slashdot of course.
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It looks like it's already devolving now.
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WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's wrong with his post? (Score:5, Funny)
You spelling and grammar knowlegde is perfectly fine, as far as I can tell (I'm a non english speaker though). On the other hand, you have serious problems with comprehension.
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Are the graders allowed to mark the exam with (Score:4, Funny)
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As someone who grades papers: (Score:3, Funny)
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IAAEM (Score:3, Funny)
In some poor parts of the world an English degree means studying how to spell and speak properly.
This is exceedingly unfortunate because the true value of an appreciation of English comes from the ability to understand the nuances of a persons expressions, and in turn to control ones own nuances.
As a Comp Sci major I think the best way to explain this would be to say that it adds bandwidth to people's ability to communicate, before I became an English major I thought it would add bandwidth in the way facial expressions do. Now I understand that a true understanding of English adds more bandwidth than anything short of the original use of language.
This is difficult to explain to people who are so used to people using casual expressions and syntax and choosing topics without enough thought.
When an author puts a word on a page that is the word he has chosen and he has chosen it for a reason, he chose it instead of every other word there is.
Anyway, I'm disgusted with New Zealanders, fortunately in my country approx 50-60% of people end up going to university, and they call it university because your forced to take English.
Cheers!
Re:What's wrong with his post? (Score:5, Funny)
What?
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I fixed it for you guys.
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Note: I am an American high school student.
The poster knows what he's talking about, his people butchered the English language a long time ago.
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If you're using Hungarian as an excuse, shouldn't that read:
advSorry prpFor prnMy nGrammar
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I got F on that test as my math teacher thought that I was writing theta...
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Now if you'll excuse me, I have a class on "Group sex: sharing can be caring" to teach to third graders.
Don't you work at an all boys school?
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I think you misspelled "employed".
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"Sure, you asked for a ten page paper on the topic, and the paper I passed in was only two pages, but the existance
of your requirement causes this paper to also serve as a test of my mathematics ability, specifically my ability
to count, and thus grades beyond the course's syllabus."