Writer's Block: Connecting the dots

[aloneindarknes7]

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As a future teacher, let me just give my brief opinion on this; NO, NO, NO, BAD, STOP DOING THAT.

Since that's pretty much what every single teacher pounds into my head. 

Comments

[geaven.livejournal.com]

Standardized tests? Please indulge a foreigner?

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

They're foreign too so I'm kinda surprised you've never heard of it before.

The dictionary definition is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.

But they're actually really unfair because they test specific things which may not be relevant to certain curriculums and they also are used with every student, meaning the student with special needs is expected to know and score as well as the regular student as with the advanced student and all that. It's really just terrible and forces school to stop being fun and more about learning the objectives that will be on these standardized tests.

[geaven.livejournal.com]

Ohh, right! You mean our equivalent to nationella prov. Now I get it. :)

(But, you know, only because something is foreign to you, doesn't necessarily mean it isn't to me. ;))

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would be it then!

(I just meant that they're used all over the world in any system that has a well set-up education program so I was guessing they were used in Sweden too.)

[atromiti.livejournal.com]

Ugh, standardized tests.

NO, NO, NO, BAD, STOP DOING THAT.

My thoughts exactly. *g*

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Your icon fits this topic very well! ^^

[robina1984.livejournal.com]

As I told Jem, I like standardized tests! Just think of how bad my grades would have been if I had to actually prove I knew the answer, not just circle a dot that seemed familar!

(Honestly, I did about the same on both tests if I like the subject. If I didn't like the subject though, GIVE ME MULTIPLE CHOICE. Often could get 10 points difference between the two. Which can be a LOT.)

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

No there's nothing wrong with multiple choice tests but those are different than standardized tests. You're thinking of something different. Standardized tests are those things that you probably took in tenth grade with a huge booklet and spent the entire day/morning working on. The teacher read you the directions aloud and then you would open your booklet and have to read a blurb about something and then answer a few questions about it, then move on to the next blurb and continue the process for a monotonous few hours. It's not something your actual teachers could give you to take, it's on a state/nation-wide scale, depending on which test you were taking.

[catc10.livejournal.com]

My friend jenchan posted an reply to this same question that I think you'll like.
ME

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out then.