Dan
2008-05-16 10:30:36
I debate with several friends who are all teachers about standardized testing, and they all hate it. It makes their lesson plans boring and their ability to keep material interesting extremely difficult. Also one of the biggest complaints they have is the dumpster mentality that the students get in. Spend a year loading my head with facts on one subject, take the test at the end of the year, pass and then dump all of that useless knowledge to make way for next years subject. Has there ever been a test where students have been asked to retake a test they had passed a year earlier to compare results. I think the amount of retention would be horrible and pretty much prove that students in American High Schools are not learning a thing.
