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I suspect that with teachers teaching to a test, it improves bad teachers and holds good teachers back a little.
by tachudda 8y ago
I suspect that with teachers teaching to a test, it improves bad teachers and holds good teachers back a little.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoEither way, the result is that the students learn to take the test well and might not learn much if anything else. ...and Florida still is a bad place to get a public education.
- galangalalgol 8y agoIt accomplishes little. The tests are a subset of the things the students should have been learning anyway. The idea was that by measuring performance teaching could be improved where needed. The actual result was that the "help" given to classes with bad scores has been to overtrain some tiny neural nets to respond to very specific stimuli without teaching them anything beyond the specifically measured behavior. Even the students that pass often haven't mastered the material. They just can take the test. We opted to replace accountability with process and reaped the usual results.