http://ctyson1.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/assessment/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:19:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://ctyson1.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-29 jen5729 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:35:21 +0000 http://ctyson1.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/assessment/#comment-29 I agree --Charlotte there is toomuch testing going on. That is all the kids are going to know about school--testing. They should be remembering field day, science fun, chapter books they read, etc not test test test. I do not know how you guys do it in 3rd grade. I love teaching 3rd grade--I left the year we did the practice CRCT. I do not know if I could go back to all of that testing and the stress of what teacher had what scores etc. How can one test--either CRCT or SAT make the difference in how students and teachers are perceived!?!? I agree –Charlotte there is toomuch testing going on. That is all the kids are going to know about school–testing. They should be remembering field day, science fun, chapter books they read, etc not test test test. I do not know how you guys do it in 3rd grade. I love teaching 3rd grade–I left the year we did the practice CRCT. I do not know if I could go back to all of that testing and the stress of what teacher had what scores etc. How can one test–either CRCT or SAT make the difference in how students and teachers are perceived!?!?

]]> http://ctyson1.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-26 jonschoening Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:11:20 +0000 http://ctyson1.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/assessment/#comment-26 We do give too many assessments and then do the wrong thing with the information we get from the scores. We rank students and teachers instead of identifying areas that need improvement and focusing on that. The students feel the grind just as much as the teachers. The test will not go away until parents and community leaders stop putting so much value on a number. As we have learned in Truscott's class, numbers can be decieving. It is that time of year again when students are going to take the SAT and all the states will be compared to one another. Of course we will be in the bottom ten, not from a lack of good teaching, just a strange need for journalist to compare apples to oranges when talking about SAT scores. In 2005, Georgia had the highest SAT score for African Americans in the entire country. I didn't read about any of that in the AJC. Keep a portfolio, sit down with parents at the end of the year and you can show them the growth little Johnnie has made. We do give too many assessments and then do the wrong thing with the information we get from the scores. We rank students and teachers instead of identifying areas that need improvement and focusing on that. The students feel the grind just as much as the teachers. The test will not go away until parents and community leaders stop putting so much value on a number. As we have learned in Truscott’s class, numbers can be decieving. It is that time of year again when students are going to take the SAT and all the states will be compared to one another. Of course we will be in the bottom ten, not from a lack of good teaching, just a strange need for journalist to compare apples to oranges when talking about SAT scores. In 2005, Georgia had the highest SAT score for African Americans in the entire country. I didn’t read about any of that in the AJC. Keep a portfolio, sit down with parents at the end of the year and you can show them the growth little Johnnie has made.

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