Wednesday, October 19, 2011
[free] Stop making test so important
In school test count has a big part of a students grade and personally I find that unreasonable. I do not agree with test counting as such a big part mainly because there is not a true necessary reason why they should be. When a student is graded I think that they should be graded heavily on other things mainly because when it comes to test for the kids who are not great test takers the educational system us basically set up fail. For example when a child is a bad test taker, they come to school they work their butts off doing so many another things they can even gets straight A's on everything in it all in but once a test comes to hand and they fail it, they fail the class and it is basically a slap in the face to them. Mainly because it is saying you can try as hard as you want on everything, but if cannot do this then all that hard work you did and all that effort you put into it was for nothing. Now there are many alternatives that I child can take when it comes to test, yes they can go to tutoring and yes they can study hard, there is a lot of yes's to a lot of solutions however from my personal experience if test are not for you they are just not for you and it is just that plan and simple. When I was a junior I struggled a lot in alegrbra 2. With math the test count as 70% of a students grade and even though I always did my work, my homework, turned it all in and took note I ended up having to drop the completely because no matter what I did I was failing the class because I could not do well on the test and considering that the test are waited so heavily it did not even matter what work I turned in all that matter was the test. Therefore whatever board is if control the the educational system should take that into consideration do to the fact that there are way more children with the same issue. I think that kids should be graded on how much they progressed over the years and they amount of effort they make rather than how well they can memorize information.
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...or, people shouldn't be graded AT ALL. but that's a deeper iceberg.
ReplyDeleteThe dirty little secret that you DON'T mention here is also that much of the time, the way students experience tests is that they cram right beforehand, then forget everything afterwards. So passing a test is often no indication at all that you've retained the information tested. *sigh.*