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Standardized testing is, and has been, OOC in public schools
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:11 am
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:11 am
Today, my students are taking an online "practice" test that simulates the type of questions that they will see on iLeap in May. We are supposed to use the data gathered on these practice tests to reinforce weaknesses that we see. All good in theory. Problem is, these practice tests have no impact on the student or their grade in any way. Many students give little to no effort, making their data useless. This goes for the actual PARCC (Math and ELA) and iLeap (Science and Social Studies) that will will give in April/May.
However, the state dept. of education uses these test scores as almost the sole means of determining our effectiveness as teachers. Imagine if your job performance was based on how well someone else did something, when that someone had nothing to motivate them to do that something well.
However, the state dept. of education uses these test scores as almost the sole means of determining our effectiveness as teachers. Imagine if your job performance was based on how well someone else did something, when that someone had nothing to motivate them to do that something well.
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:13 am to High C
Can you offer some kind of incentive?
Like if they score X or above you give them bonus points or something?
Like if they score X or above you give them bonus points or something?
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:14 am to High C
It all started to go downhill right around the time I graduated from high school. They started instituting bench mark exams every nine weeks for underclassmen.
Those were the most pointless exams imaginable.
Those were the most pointless exams imaginable.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:15 am to High C
Also, in before standardized tests are culturally biased.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:15 am to High C
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Imagine if your job performance was based on how well someone else did something, when that someone had nothing to motivate them to do that something well.
It's called business management.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:17 am to burdman
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Can you offer some kind of incentive?
Why do you think so many teachers are getting busted fricking students these days?
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:17 am to High C
Education will not get better until we learn that
cultivating strengths > reinforcing weakness
cultivating strengths > reinforcing weakness
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:17 am to High C
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Many students give little to no effort,
Why are your students doing so poorly on the test? Sounds like the standardized tests are exposing your lack of effectiveness as an educator.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:18 am to saint amant steve
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They started instituting bench mark exams every nine weeks for underclassmen
I'll be giving those in mid-April. Useless.
All of this amounts to a lot of lost instructional time, especially for math and ELA teachers. I estimate that they spend at least 20 instructional days per year doing standardized testing or "practice" standardized testing.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:18 am to terd ferguson
I was thinking more along the lines of a tradition, legal incentive. But I guess when all else fails...
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:19 am to Clyde Tipton
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It's called business management.
Employees are motivated by a paycheck and they are usually adults. We are talking about children and all they get is a grade on a piece of paper, many of them have parents who don't care whether they get an F or an A.
I teach high school and it is a bit better because we use the EOC test as their Final Exam grade so those do mean something and do carry weight.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:19 am to High C
A. Publicly giving a known practice exam
B. Uses results of known practice exam
C. Public schools
The idiots in charge need to be replaced
B. Uses results of known practice exam
C. Public schools
The idiots in charge need to be replaced
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:21 am to jrodLSUke
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Sounds like the standardized tests are exposing your lack of effectiveness as an educator.
Actually, I've been rated "highly effective" since the ratings began. Guess what you get when you achieve the highest rating. An annual bonus of....wait for it....$150.
Woo-hoooo!!!!
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:22 am to High C
they use the practice exams to determine your effectiveness?
or the actual exams?
or the actual exams?
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:24 am to High C
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Actually, I've been rated "highly effective" since the ratings began. Guess what you get when you achieve the highest rating. An annual bonus of....wait for it....$150.
Woo-hoooo!!!!
Wait you got a bonus, I didn't get anything except for an atta boy and a more difficult case load.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:24 am to High C
Glad I went to private school pre-k through high school. PSAT and ACT were the only standardized tests I ever took prior to college.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:25 am to Salmon
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they use the practice exams to determine your effectiveness? or the actual exams?
The actual exams, but the incentive for the students to do well is the same on both. Zero. We've tried things, like rewards for those reaching certain levels, but it hasn't made much of an impact.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:26 am to Salmon
I remember taking the CAT and LEAP tests in school. The LEAP was always easy as hell.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:27 am to High C
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The actual exams, but the incentive for the students to do well is the same on both.
don't you have to pass the LEAP to pass the grade?
Posted on 3/23/16 at 10:28 am to High C
You teach third grade?
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