Comment by cascom
6 years ago
1. I think it’s generally sort of amusing to see a bunch of STEM oriented people (who generally are less than sympathetic to people who are math or computer illiterate) take the position that the art subjects they probably struggled with are BS
2. I actually think many creators/authors of art are sometimes least well positioned to describe its cultural implications/significance
3. As everyone here knows standardized tests are less about the perfect/correct answer, but rather the least bad vs the other choices
> I actually think many creators/authors of art are sometimes least well positioned to describe its cultural implications/significance
Then who is in the best position to describe the art? The test authors?
A better way to judge the students' understanding of literary concepts present in a poem would be to have them describe it however they want, and grade them on how well they can cite evidence for their claims about the author's intention.