Comments on: No to “No Child”? http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/ Aristotle Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:47:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: In a Classroom Far, Far Away… | My Comments (I Think) http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/comment-page-1/#comment-14 In a Classroom Far, Far Away… | My Comments (I Think) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:44:23 +0000 http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/#comment-14 [...] http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/#comment-13 [...] [...] http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/#comment-13 [...]

]]> By: Sheryl Smith http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Sheryl Smith Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:27:42 +0000 http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/#comment-13 I both agree and disagree with you here. Personally, I don't like standardized tests because I think it's impossible to hold everone to one specific "standard", but I also can't offer up any alternative to the idea. It is important for the government to check in and make sure our schools are performing the way they should be, but there are too many other factors involved. People are different from place to place. I both agree and disagree with you here. Personally, I don’t like standardized tests because I think it’s impossible to hold everone to one specific “standard”, but I also can’t offer up any alternative to the idea. It is important for the government to check in and make sure our schools are performing the way they should be, but there are too many other factors involved. People are different from place to place.

]]> By: Dan Kyle http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Dan Kyle Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:35:29 +0000 http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/#comment-2 I think that standardized tests are important, as they show where a student is in relation to his or her peers, but I think that their being so strongly stressed in schools today has completely ruined their usefulness. Standardized tests no longer show you where a student a student’s academic skill set ranks among his peers, it only shows where that student’s ability to learn how to take a test ranks. This is completely useless. It’s the epitome of jumping through hoops. Learn how to take a test, get good scores, keep learning tests, get more good scores, get into a good college, get good job. Sure, the end goal is achievable, but none of its prior steps have any real world relation to it. Maybe I just hate tests, or maybe I’m just mad at school right now because I could be doing... well.. anything else instead of homework, but standardized tests—in my opinion—have given students an incredibly skewed view of how the world works. Death to standardized tests. I think that standardized tests are important, as they show where a student is in relation to his or her peers, but I think that their being so strongly stressed in schools today has completely ruined their usefulness.

Standardized tests no longer show you where a student a student’s academic skill set ranks among his peers, it only shows where that student’s ability to learn how to take a test ranks. This is completely useless. It’s the epitome of jumping through hoops. Learn how to take a test, get good scores, keep learning tests, get more good scores, get into a good college, get good job. Sure, the end goal is achievable, but none of its prior steps have any real world relation to it.

Maybe I just hate tests, or maybe I’m just mad at school right now because I could be doing… well.. anything else instead of homework, but standardized tests—in my opinion—have given students an incredibly skewed view of how the world works. Death to standardized tests.

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