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Monday, May 07, 2007

Poor Standardized Test Questions

This question is a practice question for the ERB (fourth-grade standardized) tests in America:

Sara wants to measure how much applesauce she made this fall. If she uses metric, which unit should she use?

A) gram
B) liter
C) kilogram
D) centimeter

See the discussion here on just how bad of a question this is. It really reflects poorly on how good of an understanding even the writer has of the SI system of measurement (which has been taught in the US since the passage of the Education Amendments in 1974).

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