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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 11:49 AM Original message |
For all the teachers at DU.... |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Is that what teaching to the test means? Every other question is avoided as irrelevant? I |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I don't know if that's what it.... |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 01:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. My ninth grade English teacher had us diagram sentences from James Joyce. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. We've had "Final Exams" since forever. Standardized-Test makers ask that all individuality be tamped |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Exactly! Although, NOW, pay raises have little to do with it, |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I hope you didn't think I was... |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. There should be and always will be testing.... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Teaching to the test may be new but learning to the test is not |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Yes, your post helped.... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. If the test adequately reflects the curriculum, teaching to the test sounds great |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. I teach at a college and I can tell you the end result of the policy: |
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YankmeCrankme (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. It would seem to be simple to me... |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Different profs approach this situation in their own ways, |
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wcast (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. Anyone working in education today knows what it means. |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Thank you... |
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wcast (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Please know my rant wasn't directed at you :) |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Nice post.....this paragraph is quite true. |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 06:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. And I thought those tests were to make Neil Bush rich. |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
13. One teacher's perspective: |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
17. "Then why are there few Brazilian physicists of note?" |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. Teaching to the test is almost the norm these days, |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Thank you.. |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-20-10 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
21. To anyone trying to make sense of this, as I am, I recommend... |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-21-10 07:54 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. In the words of Smokey Robinson, "I second that Emotion." |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-21-10 12:14 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. YAaaaY, Smokey!!! |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-21-10 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
25. "Teaching to the test" may be effective for adult students prepping for a CPA exam, |
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