Saturday, October 24, 2015
"Obama calls for less standardized testing in schools, addressing nationwide concerns"- Leah Messinger (period1)
Obama has just recently called for less standardized testing in schools. He believes that the amount of testing that students have to do now is a little too much and takes away from valuable learning time. It also causes them to focus on how to take the tests and how to pass them rather than the material they should want to be learning. According to recent studies, students spend about 20-25 hours per school year taking standardized tests,and in the time spanning from kindergarten to 12th grade students take about 112 of them. Most teachers are in agreement with this proposition,however, their are some skeptics that are questioning what is actually considered "too much". Others are saying that Obama cannot force states or districts to limit testing, but he will meet with them to discuss the topic. Soon, Obama will ask Congress to make his plan into legislation. Overall, Obama just wants to direct schools back to their original purpose which is to teach students and not overkill them with stressful testing. Even though they are important in assessing students he just wants to see a cut back in the amount of them and maybe instead add some other ideas on how to asses how much their students have learned.
I agree with Obama in that a big part of today's school system has become about how to pass tests and has strayed away from their original intentions. As a student, I personally feel more concerned with learning material in order to pass the tests I have to take rather than actually retaining the information, which is disappointing. This also relates to history because some people feel as though Obama can't tell them how to run the state schools which has to do with the federal government having too much power. Technically, the states have the power to control schools so that is why people are angered by this nationwide announcement. While standardized tests are very important and efficient in being able to judge how students are doing, school districts have become a little obsessed with the amount of tests they are making students take.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/24/obama-calls-for-less-standardized-testing-in-schools-addressing-nationwide/
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Personally, I tend to find myself more focused on doing whatever i can just to pass a test or class rather than actually learning material. It also seems like most school's and teacher's main intensions are to get their students to pass their classes rather than actually obtaining important knowledge. Madeline Jones 4th period
ReplyDeleteMatthew Homsher 9th- Obama just became my favorite president. I totally approve.I know it's an issue for the states, but I don't really care as long as somebody fixes standardized testing. It will be the death of the STAAR test.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Obama. Us as students are worried about passing testing because that determines our grades, passing to the next grade, and college. Many people just aren't good test takers. I believe that standardized testing should slim down so students can focus on learning the actual material.
ReplyDelete-Tea Perez 1st period
All you really need to know about standardized test is right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k
ReplyDeleteThe real problem is not the amount of test taken but methods in teaching. There have been numerous new curriculums developed in the states and canada that have shown significant improvment in the grasping and understanding of conceptsin things such as math and science. None of these are able to make it to public schools because of the current people who have a grip on the education industry. So as long as students education is driven by money and politics and not competition and evidenced research then we won't see our education system improve.
All you really need to know about standardized test is right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k
ReplyDeleteThe real problem is not the amount of test taken but methods in teaching. There have been numerous new curriculums developed in the states and canada that have shown significant improvment in the grasping and understanding of conceptsin things such as math and science. None of these are able to make it to public schools because of the current people who have a grip on the education industry. So as long as students education is driven by money and politics and not competition and evidenced research then we won't see our education system improve.