Friday, August 27, 2010

How Standardized Testing Damages Education (from FairTest.org)

http://www.fairtest.org/facts/howharm.htm

In Texas, the majority of my children's education is framed through the TAKS tests. The entirety of their academic curriculum is structured to meassure how they and their peers perform on them. Maybe this isn't the best way to teach our student-citizens. Maybe we need more information on how these tests detemine or effect their own results of who is "exemplary," who is "good," and who is ... eh, bad(?).

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Unknown said...

It may be Standardized teaching that is damaging education, not the test.