As Farrah Hilton mentions in her 2021 Reading Reflections, we are amazed at what our students accomplished to sit for this year’s full exam. We commend them on their effort and creativity, especially in such a difficult year. This post breaks down our observations from the operational prose passage question, from the first testing administration in May. While we like the flexibility students had in performing the hand-written or typed exams, the biggest challenge was penmanship. In the new online platform, scanned student writing was difficult to decipher at times. Although there were some features to assist with reading (e.g. colored backgrounds, opening the whole book in a new window), the lack of defined lines to guide student handwriting made it difficult, and zooming into the essay only pixelated the handwriting. For the most part, students found the excerpt from Tim Winton’s novel Breath (2008) accessible. Many recognized the humor and vivid detail in the ... KEEP READING
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