Hello everyone I just wanted to start a chat about making tests in general. I've been teaching a while and I have seen so many teachers just use the same test over and over again. In my opinion it needs to be "tweeked" every year, things in my field continue to change and so do the students. All classes are different and what was easy for one group of students will be hard for another. Unless you want to just "scale " the test and make everyone happy including yourself. Maybe we should all look in the mirror and see that we need to think more about what we are doing. Remember the grades students receive on their tests are a true reflection on our "teaching". Yes I understand that there will always be exceptions to this. You need to be on the pulse of the class each year !! A test that works this years should be in the trash next year. Put the effort in to help the youth of today. I have implemented this type of thinking and I'm glad.