Scholarship table
Geez, DG, you sound like a rather reasonable, fair minded, well thought out individual. Just a week ago, the enlightened folks on this board had deemed you to be a racist and utterly vile to the core. How dare you have the audacity to actually live your life in a virtuous manner, being a wonderful parent, husband, and an all around decent human being (your baseball fandom has me rethinking this, though). All this goodie-goodie stuff you claim does not fit The Narrative about you last week.Popcorn time.
Standardized tests are basically IQ tests, aina?
Because teaching to the test only teaches a student how to regurgitate the narrow range of material - usually in multiple choice format - that some state bureaucrat has decided is necessary for a given grade level.
And most of all, because teaching to the test disincetivizes classroom activities that encourage students to figure sh*t out on their own, develop critical thinking skills, foster creativity, and learn how to learn. [/b]It's the kids who can do those things are going to grow up to be the most successful, not the automaton who can best fill out ovals with a No. 2 pencil.
How does one teach a student to regurgitate the answer to something like "2x + 9 = 21. Solve for x" Or: "You need to by a pair of shoes and some socks. A pair of shoes costs $9. Socks cost $2 each pair. How many pair of socks can you buy if you have $21."If you teach the concept, the test will be easy. So don't teach to the test. Teach the concept. The test is a measure as to whether you've done that.
We’re producing kids that are way behind in reading, math and science but keen on at least one version of social justice. How this is considered “progress” escapes me.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
That's cool for math. Now do that for reading comprehension, history, social sciences, etc.
Hard to get good at reading comprehension (or any subject that requires it) without first learning how to read.
No kidding. Tell me how you can evaluate that on a standardized test?
If you can't read, you'll perform poorly on a standardized tests. Then the child will get assistance.If our little Catholic school could figure that out, why can public schools with more aides, social workers, specialists, etc than actual classroom teachers figure that out?Oh yeah, we don't want to make a kid feel bad by not simply advancing them through the grade levels instead of asking sure that kids are ready to do the work in the next grade. Then, when illiterate and otherwise not prepared kids "graduate" they are condemned to low wage, low skill jobs, because that's all they can do. You need to be able to read and do math for the trades, manufacturing, and most other blue collar jobs, short of day laborer and fast food. Then poverty, crime, prison, and repeat.
So don't teach to the test. Teach the concept. The test is a measure as to whether you've done that.
If you have successfully taught via activities that encourage students to figures sh*t out on their own, develop critical thinking skills, foster creativity, and learn how to learn, THEN a student should be able to apply what they figured out, their critical thinking skills, and their creativity to answer a damn question on a test.
They measure both achievement and IQ, two things currently out of favor. The brightest will always score the highest, but everyone can improve on the margins if they are taught basic math, reading and grammar skills. I gather from Pakuni’s post that these are also out of favor. We’re producing kids that are way behind in reading, math and science but keen on at least one version of social justice. How this is considered “progress” escapes me.
No! He thinks Yadier is the best PR baseball player ever. DG is just a dirty bird fan, makes him a dirty old man.
While you're right this sort of ignores the fact that ESL kids are left out to dry there. Can we at least agree that they should probably offer the exams in various languages?
If we get rid of the ACT and SAT shouldn't we also get rid of the GMAT, MCAT, and LSAT? How about the TOEFL too? We wouldn't want kids left out of med school and feeling bad about themselves because they didn't do well enough on the MCAT.
I mean, at your age, I'm sure a lot escapes you.But in all seriousness, we are "way behind" because your generation dropped the ball. Its shocking to me that the people who have been in control for the last 30-40 years can't believe how far behind our children are. But that's just par for the course with you old folk. Absolute abdication of responsibility is your generations greatest gift to the world!You're the same numbskulls that berated millennials about getting "participation trophies". Did you guys think we went to the trophy store and had those made for ourselves?