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'Teaching to the test' has not caused the drop in literacy. Rather, it's teaching reading using bizarre methods, like whole word recognition instead of phonics.
by anon291 1y ago
'Teaching to the test' has not caused the drop in literacy. Rather, it's teaching reading using bizarre methods, like whole word recognition instead of phonics. This has nothing to do with 'teaching to the test', since phonics would teach more to the test than whole word anything. A phonetically competent adult would be able to make out almost any English word. A whole word one would not.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y ago"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure, unless the teacher is poor"?
- anon291 1y agoThis 'truth' is not always true. For binary questions, teaching to measure makes sense
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- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoUnfortunately, "is someone literate" is not a binary question. There's a whole range of possible answers there.