Submitted by Patte (not verified) on April 23, 2008 - 15:48.
Kozol advice: “Make sure students achieve, and maintain a calm classroom.” Interesting advice to be sure. How does one insure that students are achieving except via an assessment? Standardized tests have a very bad reputation with educators. Is it because our tests are poor assessments of learning, are they assessing the wrong things or assessing students in the wrong way? To ‘make sure students achieve’ there must be some form of assessment. Society is telling us that our students do not have the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. Skills such as basic reading, writing and math. We must ‘make sure students achieve’ these skills and figure out some way to assess those skills so our schools will once again be respected as institutions of learning.
Make sure students achieve
Submitted by Patte (not verified) on April 23, 2008 - 15:48.
Kozol advice: “Make sure students achieve, and maintain a calm classroom.” Interesting advice to be sure. How does one insure that students are achieving except via an assessment? Standardized tests have a very bad reputation with educators. Is it because our tests are poor assessments of learning, are they assessing the wrong things or assessing students in the wrong way? To ‘make sure students achieve’ there must be some form of assessment. Society is telling us that our students do not have the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. Skills such as basic reading, writing and math. We must ‘make sure students achieve’ these skills and figure out some way to assess those skills so our schools will once again be respected as institutions of learning.