Years ago when this “testing” game came up...I predicted it’d take only a couple of years before teachers realized that they’d have to revamp their system and cheat to continue their pay raises. So here we are. I would imagine that ninety-five percent of all teachers are teaching how to pass the big test, and not really teaching the real structure we all had back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Every test I ever took in Army training, the instructor more or less reviewed the questions and answers just before the multiple guess examine. The only thing they were examining was attention span and short term memory. Even then a lot of guys flunked.
And thus, “no child left behind” ends up with more children left behind. George W. Bush, of all people, should have known better! It would have been smarter to look at factors such as the college bound and the kinds and pay of jobs gained by graduates, compared to the whole.
“Years ago when this “testing” game came up...I predicted it’d take only a couple of years before teachers realized that they’d have to revamp their system and cheat to continue their pay raises. So here we are. I would imagine that ninety-five percent of all teachers are teaching how to pass the big test, and not really teaching the real structure we all had back in the 1960s and 1970s.”
I didn’t think this would be a problem, as I figured that the testing organizations would guard the answers to their questions tightly...and I couldn’t imagine the teachers being able to answer the questions themselves.