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        Time to stir up some more trouble.  It's the time of
year for standardized testing, & I'm being told by our reading
specialist that the TAP test (put out by the folks that do the
ITBS) STILL tests the PRINT version of Readers' Guide and the
card catalog.
        Now, my guess is that if you're reading this, you're
probably on your way to being automated.  We do need to
consider that not all of our libraries are, but in the sample
test materials she's given me, I see questions geared
SPECIFICALLY to the print versions of these resources, that
might confuse a kid familiar with only the computer versions.
        Do we need to throw our collective weight behind a
request to the test publishers that they at least word the
questions so that our kids aren't at a disadvantage?  Let me
know what you think!
--
Hilary Whitehill - hwhitehi@pen.k12.va.us
Librarian, T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia


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