Or it could simply be low motivation, since many students never
hear about their standardized test results from previous years?
Not exact matches
They are constantly
hearing complaints from their constituents
about the overuse and abuse of
standardized tests, and many are eager to do something
about it.
Conley's report comes at just the right time; while we have
heard endlessly
about teacher, student, and parent frustration over
standardized testing,
about what those
tests are missing, and how limited they are, the educational community has been too silent
about alternatives.
When you are being abused or
hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC
test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a
test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on
standardized tests.
These are some of the things I've
heard teachers say over the years
about standardized test scores and the pressures surrounding student performance:
Recently, Duckworth
heard about the school that was instituting a Grit Week in order to boost its students
standardized testing scores, a goal she 100 percent would not have picked, for one simple reason: Who ever
heard of a teenager being passionate
about standardized tests?
We
heard many stories
about SBAC
testing that are common to high - stakes,
standardized tests: the
tests dramatically disrupted the educational process, deprived students of hours of instructional time, reduced stressed out students to tears, and monopolized the computer labs and libraries in service of
test administration for weeks at a time.
Ask: Has anyone
heard about a group of teachers in Seattle who recently decided to refuse to give a
standardized test.