Sentence examples for bad testing from inspiring English sources
Errors in the measurement of cognitive skills can also occur if PIAAC respondents had a bad testing day or solved tasks correctly or incorrectly simply by chance.
But here's the thing that turns so many devs away from testing: bad testing is almost as bad — sometimes even worse — than no testing.
Errors common to both numeracy and literacy or common to all plausible values in the numeracy domain, ranging from the tested person having a bad testing day or the fact that the test measures may not be an encompassing measure of the underlying concept of human capital, are not eliminated (for an in-depth discussion, see section 2 in Hanushek et al., 2015).
"This has to be a bad test.
She was shocked to see the bad test results.
What if I'm derailed by a bad test score, or a mangled chemistry course?
It's not a bad test for the quality of a book, re-readability.
There is a long argumentative path from bad tests results to a justified call to arms.
If I get a bad test result and my parents complain, she'll always say, "Oh, he works so hard".
High-stakes testing incentivizes narrowing of the curriculum, gaming the system, teaching to bad tests and cheating.
