tgif - friday the 13th for you superstitious people out there. i found out this morning that the doctors still don't know what went wrong during the little neighbor girl's surgery. so now the family gets to endure the humiliation of an autopsy. i have already seen some good come out of all this. the people i talk to about the situation are becoming more aware in general of their children. i've been seeing a lot more parents outside on their driveways in the evenings instead of just the kids out on their bikes alone or with their friends. how can we take our kids for granted? but we do.on an unrelated note, i got the bright idea to make my own multiple-choice tests this semester instead of just taking the questions from the test bank that comes with the text book. one reason is because i absolutely abhor the book! it is way too advanced for an intro class - especially an intro class full of freshmen right out of high school. another reason is because i get so many students whose first language is not english, and the test bank questions tend to use a lot of slang. since my client load has been lighter, i have been working on making the first test, which is just 50 multiple-choice questions. i'm actually finding it to be kind of fun, yet time consuming. we'll see if it pays off in the long run.
that is all. carry on.
3 comments:
I am still thinking about your neighbour's child. It is really bothering me that something that seems so routine went so tragically. And, I do want to know why? (if you find out...)
cute kitty.
Love the kitty! :)
I hope you'll post if and when they find out what went wrong with the neighbor's child's surgery. My heart just breaks to think of it -- we take "modern medicine" so for granted, yet we glibly sign the papers before every "minor" procedure that delineates the risk of death, never thinking we might be in that tiny statistical percentage that don't make it through.
Good for you, making your own test questions. You know your students better than the book does.
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