To be fair, or, as fair to people who are making poor decisions 'on behalf' of their children as one can be, I have been changing my testing practices over the past couple years. For example, curricular outcomes state "students must understand ......" but they do not say "students must understand ..... without any study aids, in a time-limited environment, writing on a scantron sheet ..."
Teaching is in general slow to accept changes, however, sometimes things are done a certain way for a reason. Homework and testing are just as much a part of socialization as they are for learning curricular outcomes. They also help teach students things not necessarily covered by the outcomes.
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