I remember being in teacher heaven for three wonderful years until they went totally bonkers over testing. I remember having happy students in a well orchestrated, creative classroom. Then I remember when they told me how to teach, and that I had to do the VERY same thing as all the other teachers in my department every day until the February TAKS tests were over. Then I remember quitting.
2007-02-17 23:05:25
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answered by Konswayla 6
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This may sound like some stupid conspiracy theory. But I personally believe the only reason they give the end of the year standardized tests. Are to help the state brag about how smart there state is. The tests are very easy and almost elementary. I'll give you an example of how easy they are. In eighth grade I was put in a algebra class. Now I skipped alot that year alot of **** happened but anyways. I had no understanding of how algebra worked and passed the class with a very low d. But guess what I got on the EOC a B plus lol. Well that’s the converted score I forget the way it was graded but I remember that was the equivalent. The tests are completely dumbed down. So we know it’s not to actually aid the children. The thing that sucks about education is that it’s a job. And sometimes economics are more important then the actual goal.
2007-02-18 03:57:17
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answered by Beaverscanttalk 4
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You are right and at the same time you are wrong. Lol
What happened when you were not looking (you were busy growing up yourself, then working and working etc) was that the kids became less learned, and less smarter than all the other kids elsewhere . Thank God the comparisons were only between the different states. You do not want your city to be number 50
Here is a sample:
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1. Vermont 2 Massachusetts 3.Connecticut 4. New Jersey
5. Maine 6 Virginia
47.California 48 Mississippi 49 Nevada 50 Arizona
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I can almost hear you saying "What is California doing in the bottom of the list? I thought those guys were smart. Heck, the Silicon Valley is out there"
If we do not test, we would be mistakenly thinking that our kids are doing allright.
2007-02-18 01:56:59
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answered by QuiteNewHere 7
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I'm a Canadian high school student, so I'm not as familiar with the American system and/or American tests. I'm a high school student and I have taken standardized provincial tests since I was nine and I feel that it's a boring waste of time. More often than not, the tests are not indicative of a student's aptitude/ability, because, in my experience -- and it's an opinion shared by most, if not all, of my classmates -- standardized tests are much easier than the actual curriculum and they only offer a brief snapshot. It would, in my opinion, be far more logical to use students' averages as an indicator of students' performance, as it's probably far more accurate. Accuracy, though, is rarely ever the point; governments typically prefer to display their false achievement and problems arise with using students' averages as an indicator.
The fact is that tests, more often than not, don't serve their purpose very well, because there can (and often are) other factors contributing to a student's success or failure (it's surprisingly easy to cheat or conversely, students can be nervous). They have, however, become the accepted way to assess student success, because it's much easier for a student to plagiarize and pass it off as their own than it is for them to cheat on a test, so tests are usually considered the lesser of two evils.
I personally feel that students are being submitted to far too many useless, standardized tests and I'm quite tired of exams, which usually don't say much to my knowledge, as far as I'm concerned. In-class tests seem unavoidable at present and they probably are the lesser of two evils, but some students would benefit from another system. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that any government is particularly willing to provide an alternative right now, and the future looks bleak.
2007-02-18 03:24:14
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answered by ? 2
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I remember taking a stupid "aptitude" test in the 70's while I was in high school. I was sick at the time. Later the counselor called me in and told my the results said I should go into auto repair or farm labor as a career. I have now been a very successful special ed. teacher with a masters degree for 25 years. Thank goodness I didn't pay any attention to that nonsense
2007-02-18 01:50:17
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answered by b_friskey 6
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Yes, I just graduated high school last year and I feel that there is a rediculous amount of testing that goes on. It seems like there could be some way to make one cumulative test, especially for high schoolers. We had state required tests every year, and as it came closer to applying for college, it was ACT, SAT, SAT IIs, etc... We can manage, but it seems a little much.
2007-02-18 01:57:26
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answered by Stefano 2
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here's the thing, we do test our students quite a bit. but i wouldn't say that learning has ever been fun for everyone. but by testing we trying to evaluate how well the students learned the knowledge they were supposed to learn and also how well they were taught that information. there's a reaason even if it's not a very good one.
2007-02-18 02:51:08
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answered by sweetesssounds 2
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