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Subject: Individual testing session

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Eva

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Date Posted: 08:40:18 05/31/11 Tue

The student I know has learning difficulties and she is often laughed at by her classmates being labeled lazy, stupid and sometimes even a liar. Despite this she never gives up showing that she can be as smart and fast as the rest of her class. However, in doing so she sometimes makes things up, cheats, and worst of all, lies. Even though the teachers encourage her to be fair and acknowledge her for being fair - it is still difficult for her to depart from the usual practice. Then the day came when the class took their standard computer-based test, and the teacher decided she wants to know how this student is doing within her class. The procedure was explained and, knowing this student's tactics, she was also told how important for her and her teacher it is to do in test the expected way - as the others. Quite the contrary, the desire to demonstrate cleverness and speed was stronger. Pretended reading and answering questions took place. In fact, this student was skipping questions or guessing answers without reading them. She was done within the first five students, but most of all happy. However, the test results were useless, and the student admitted she wanted to show how fast she can read. That day she was excitedly telling everyone in school that she's finished her test as fifth. This was more importnt for her than anything else. This experience proves that the best way to test a dyslexic child's knowledge is to set up an individual session.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Individual testing session	Russel Van Brocklin	10:35:14 06/01/11 Wed