This chapter is about assessing and reporting student achievement. This portion of the chapter discusses standardized and nonstandardized tests. I think the idea behind standardized tests is good, however standardized testing has become too powerful and influential to the basic classroom operations. With test scores reflecting how teachers perform, many teachers are now teaching for the test, instead of teaching the students in a way that they are able to remember the information later on. As a teacher, I need to find the healthy balance of teaching my students how to understand the information on these tests, but also teach my students so that they understand the subject on its own.
Another big portion was test anxiety. As a teacher I need to be able to identify when students are under a lot of pressure and help them out when they are stressing. I also need to be able to teach them different strategies that will help them overcome the test anxiety.
As future educators, we all feel basically the same way about standardized tests, so I'm not surprised that I completely agree with you. Also, these standardized tests can affect a students chances of getting into a college they want, so test anxiety often go hand-in-hand with huge norm reference, standardized tests. Kelly and I will be discussing these in depth later tonight. Thanks for sharing and stay gold ponygirl...stay gold :)
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