Submitted by Chris S (not verified) on April 29, 2008 - 06:45.
Well said...more focus needs to be on the development of student "soft skills". This should not be at the expense of content knowledge or technical skill, but as an important component of student development. Far from emphasizing one assessment for students, I think assessment should be on-going, that students should track themselves and that educators should look for improvement in individual students as opposed to lumping them together in demographic groups. In that way students compete against themselves and will make progress - sometimes in short bursts, sometimes in longer curves. Whatever the case, the current testing culture is a complete failure. Teachers are leaving in droves, students hate school and the only folks who are happy come from the political elite who have basically created this abomination.
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Submitted by Chris S (not verified) on April 29, 2008 - 06:45.
Well said...more focus needs to be on the development of student "soft skills". This should not be at the expense of content knowledge or technical skill, but as an important component of student development. Far from emphasizing one assessment for students, I think assessment should be on-going, that students should track themselves and that educators should look for improvement in individual students as opposed to lumping them together in demographic groups. In that way students compete against themselves and will make progress - sometimes in short bursts, sometimes in longer curves. Whatever the case, the current testing culture is a complete failure. Teachers are leaving in droves, students hate school and the only folks who are happy come from the political elite who have basically created this abomination.