Standard education is thought as making up the gap between students at various achievement levels. But educators are disagree with standards-based assessments, because this assessment will lead teacher to teach a way to raise test scores, which limits student's self-improvement. Students will study for only standardized tests. But are standardized tests able to prove student's skills and knowledge? Actually standardized tests examine whether students can use specific knowledge, but it is more difficult to know if what kind of skills students have through standardized tests.
Vocab
Bridge
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To make up for something.
Synonym: Fill in
Sentence: Tony bridges a silence with his humor. He is a ice-breaker.
Assess
Part of speech: Verb
Definition: To judge about value or quality of something.
Synonym: Decide
Sentence: It is difficult to assess a person's personality through only first impression, but we can know if the person is a friendly person or not.
Source http://issues.tigweb.org/globaleducation
This news is familiar to Japanese. In my opinion, students should believe the schools' regulation even though the schools consider only the standard tests' score. If students are forced to enter a school, they should judge the all of ways the school has. I wonder why students or students' parents blame a school's regulation even though they chose it by their own. I believe good students are always good wherever they belong to. People can blame something very easily, but they cannot judge themselves well. I doubt the students who always get low score in the standard tests but they say, "My talent cannot be judged by such crap tests because I am a smart, actually!" If such students could get enough score and then blame something, I could here their voice.
ReplyDeleteI have a strong opinion on this as I am a graduate student at College of Education. It's saddening to see the recent trend in the U.S. where school officials focus too much on the standardized testing but not on the personal growth of each student. As Koji mentioned above, this practice is very familiar in Japan and we know where it leads us to. I used to think that American education is more liberal and values students' critical and creative mind, but they are heading to the direction where we (Japan) are now..
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