4.2.2016 EDEL 1010: Blog 7 Achievement Testing

One thing I have talked to my Service Learning teacher about is the "problem" that evaluating a teacher based on her students test scores does not give her answers about "what to change in teaching the next group of students" the next year. Each set of students are different, and a good teacher is also improving and learning from year to year. Also I understand testing methods have come a long way since I was in school, yet still we have students who struggle with language and culture. Standardized testing are not giving us a true picture of these students' intellectual abilities. Testing is ONE piece of teacher evaluation, testing is ONE piece of student evaluation, but if we are making judgments based on standardized tests ALONE, then we are failing our students and teachers. Standards and curriculum are like policies and procedures in healthcare: Guide to the wise, and rule to the fool.