-Is the way that students are taught preparing them for standardized tests?
-Do the ACT and SAT prove a student's knowledge?
-Are these tests (format) a legitimate measure of what a student knows?
-Is a part of the issue the inconsistency/ the sheer number of different tests?
-Should teachers be teaching how to pass a test or the information needed on the subject?
-Pros and Cons: Common core and standardization
-US standardization vs the world (Finland?)
-people who have a hard time with tests
-stress, health
-How many tests?
-One test decides fate/future
-Is doing well on ACT/SAT dependent on factors such as location, affluence, schools and/or resources?
Types of tests in Georgia
-SLO's
-EOC
-AP
(-Finals)
-SAT
-ACT
Theses
1. TOPIC: "Too much testing" - GA, preparation, validity, beneficial / fair
THESIS: The abundance of standardized testing in the state of Georgia is neither beneficial nor necessary for students and teachers.
2. TOPIC: testing prove your knowledge? Testing abilities? Learning styles / disabilities
THESIS: With a proven variety of learning styles, standardized testing cannot accurately portray the knowledge of an individual.
1. QUESTIONS (GA Standardized Tests):
- Have you ever been kept out of a class that you were interested in because of your standardized testing results?
2. QUESTIONS (Testing proves knowledge?):
- Would you consider yourself a good test taker?
RESEARCH
- Statistics
- Number of tests (trend increases through the years?)
- Scores gone down as amount of testing has increased?
- What tests there are, who has to take which tests, etc.
- Amount of time spent inside of school for test preparation (as opposed to other topics / subjects)
RESEARCH
- Specialist in SD: Dr. Josh Feder
- "Standardized" - should NOT need to study outside, hire a tutor, buy study books...
- Different learning styles / personality styles
- Test anxiety interview Q?
- How much do scores go up after simply practicing "test taking skills" ?
- Evidence that it shows test taking skills, not general knowledge
We need to think of interview questions, even if we don't do surveys. Mr. Bentley said we NEED quotes in our stories. Remember to get full name and high school :)
ReplyDeleteInterviewee info:
Delete-Full name
-High school
-Age (high school class: junior, senior, etc.) Let's keep it consistent with class, not age
Change: something is "not wrong" to > something is "right"
ReplyDeleteJust something Mr. Bentley said after we read our "pink" topic thesis :)
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-parcc-sit-and-stare-met-20150324-story.html#page=1
ReplyDeleteGOOD ARTICLE!! Probably better for our "blue" topic :)))
"...PARCC, is a multiday exam taken once in early spring and another time in late spring. It is based on Common Core standards for what students should know..." COMMON CORE, STANDARDIZATION
"The new exams have become a lightning rod for debate, with many parents and educators opposed to a growing battery of tests at school. The length and difficulty of the tests, and the loss of instructional time from testing, has in part spawned the movement to opt out of the exams."
"Illinois has no laws or rules on how to deal with students who choose not to take the exams, leaving districts to come up with policies. It's not clear how many districts are requiring opt-out students to sit in testing rooms and do nothing." INCONSISTENCY...
"In all, his family says Sam sat for almost 10 hours doing nothing that week..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/news/ct-ecn-parcc-tests-st-0309-20150309-story.html
ReplyDeletealso good for blue topic
Pink topic:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/test/what.html
http://www.fairtest.org/whats-wrong-standardized-tests
"Here's why we don't need standardized tests"
ReplyDeleteMay give us some ideas :)
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/07/09/36jouriles.h33.html