NFHS Testing

[greymule]

I have taken many baseball and softball tests, and every one of them has contained questions that would have to be thrown out if they appeared on the SAT. Many questions are logically and syntactically impossible, don't supply enough information, use misleading descriptions for plays, contain irrelevant information, and so on. On one softball test, more than half the 100 questions contained errors of some kind. ("After fielding the ball, the runner. . . .") Writing good questions is like writing clear instructions; you have to be able to use the language with accuracy and precision, and you really do have to know what you're doing.

I remember one question where the answer was that an appeal made by F6 is not valid, because an appeal "has to be made by an infielder."

I gave up long ago pursuing "wrong" answers that I thought were correct and trying to explain why a question was faulty. Just as when you were in school, you have to try to figure out what answer the testers are seeking, not necessarily the technically correct answer.