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Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / April 2006Bursting the bubble-sheet
It may seem hard to believe with No Child Left Behind still with us, but the days of evaluating students with bubble-sheet testing are close to being over. No Child Left Behind has about run its course. The signs have been around for years. Privately, at least, college administrators have questioned the value of the SAT for years. Some colleges have been so bold as to either remove it from consideration or downplay it importance. The test that was once touted as opening colleges to all has done little more than confirm the socioeconomic status of the test taker. More recently, the value of the Praxis has been questioned. Designed to assure that only the best-qualified teachers entered the classroom, which it failed to do, the Praxis is rapidly becoming associated with an overpriced and under performing public education system. Then, there is the granddaddy of them all, the IQ test. Originally designed in Europe to identify which students might need a little more assistance in achieving educational goals, a heavily modified version of the test was imported into the United States for purposes of promoting Social Darwinism. Its results have even been used to justify castrating and institutionalizing American citizens for the perceived crime of being slow! The result of all of these testing procedures has been an intellectual inbreeding that penalized contemplation, sanctified abstraction, rewarded memorization, and demanded conformity. Except among self-appointed elitists, their passing will not be long mourned. > It may seem hard to believe with No Child Left Behind still with us, > but the days of evaluating students with bubble-sheet testing are close > to being over. No Child Left Behind has about run its course. Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind is alive and well. It has resulted in creative teachers no longer being able to teach. This high stakes test has resulted in a test-driven curriculum for schools with unacceptable scores. > The signs have been around for years. Privately, at least, college > administrators have questioned the value of the SAT for years. Some > colleges have been so bold as to either remove it from consideration or > downplay it importance. The test that was once touted as opening > colleges to all has done little more than confirm the socioeconomic > status of the test taker. As a college instructor who has raised two children, I question the value of SAT scores. However, I do believe we need some way, perhaps a better way, to determine college entrance. > More recently, the value of the Praxis has been questioned. Designed > to assure that only the best-qualified teachers entered the classroom, > which it failed to do, the Praxis is rapidly becoming associated with > an overpriced and under performing public education system. I don't believe that the Praxis has anything to do with what you call an "overpriced and under performing public education system." But I do question the validity of the Praxis. > Then, there is the granddaddy of them all, the IQ test. Originally > designed in Europe to identify which students might need a little more [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > castrating and institutionalizing American citizens for the perceived > crime of being slow! You were being so rational. Where the hell did this garbage come from? > The result of all of these testing procedures has been an intellectual > inbreeding that penalized contemplation, sanctified abstraction, > rewarded memorization, and demanded conformity. Except among > self-appointed elitists, their passing will not be long mourned> You have equated very many different ideas that are far more complex than what you say. Am I responding to greegor, to doan, to opinions, or to the now now-existent fern? Interesting post. LaVonne It really isn't that difficult to understand. The grand scheme is coming unraveled. The silly notion that a few numbers on a sheet of paper can quantify the worth of human beings is falling apart. Today's lingering residue is little more than what's left of the misapplication of Descartes' mechanical universe in which everything had to be measured and catalogued infinitum. The religion that social engineers call "science" is failing to deliver what it promised and will one day be as forsaken as once-honored ancient deities and their crumbled temples. > > It may seem hard to believe with No Child Left Behind still with us, > > but the days of evaluating students with bubble-sheet testing are close [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > LaVonne > It really isn't that difficult to understand. The grand scheme is > coming unraveled. The silly notion that a few numbers on a sheet of [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > be as forsaken as once-honored ancient deities and their crumbled > temples. And you will replace social "science" with ... ? >>> It may seem hard to believe with No Child Left Behind still with us, >>> but the days of evaluating students with bubble-sheet testing are close [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> >> LaVonne  Signature"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin |
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