Sentences with phrase «pencil bubble tests»

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In New York City and some upstate districts, young children are taking bubble tests or online exams, even though some of the children can't yet hold a pencil or use a computer, union leaders said during a conference call Thursday.

With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their # 2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized test scores.

Then there was the «bulimic education,» with disjointed facts going in one ear and out the end of a pencil bubbling in test answer sheets and then into the ether.

The result was that technology instruction was geared toward testing, with students learning «how to click in a bubble instead of how to pencil in a bubble.»

After the field tests were administered, some news reports documented a range of problems, including students struggling to master the technicalities of taking a test online instead of filling in bubbles with a pencil.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

Imagine kindergartners bubbling answer sheets just after they learn to hold pencils, high school students who complete all their graduation requirements but aren't able to pass the exit examination and graduate because they haven't received the remediation they need, or students being asked to take high - stakes tests in a language they haven't mastered yet.