tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post5468677120255101008..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: NEA supports resolution to roll back high-stakes testingRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-23779157776244666032012-04-28T15:03:01.965-04:002012-04-28T15:03:01.965-04:00I too, agree that standardized testing has tried t...I too, agree that standardized testing has tried to take too much power in the schools. As a student, I can remember taking standardized testing as early as the second grade. It established where I was placed in classrooms, enrichment programs, and even reading groups. Assuming that on the day of those tests I was feeling normal, what would have happened if I had been feeling under the weather compared to highly-functioning and healthy? Would their have been a difference in my education either way? I have to believe that there would be. <br />I also have to say that it seems completely unrealistic to gauge how schools are functioning based on simply test scores. To fail a school because the students did poorly on a standardized test that they're not used to and don't understand well seems, well, a bit ridiculous. <br />I cannot say that this program works. One test, for example the ACT, should not declare your entrance to college, or your financial aid, which can be a bigger determining factor of going to college than your actual acceptance. While standardized tests are productive in theory, the practical use of them seems to have failed the educational system.Meghan Swainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-38266467481813470562012-04-26T15:05:58.355-04:002012-04-26T15:05:58.355-04:00I have to agree with the poster above me. Standard...I have to agree with the poster above me. Standardized testing has, in my opinion, had far too much importance placed on it. As a student I remember most of my classes and their curriculum were based around what was expected to be on the CATS and KCCT. I feel like we hardly ever learned anything because of the pressure placed on the teacher to get high test scores out of his/her students. One teacher in particular spent so much time complaining that there was not enough to time to teach us what was on the test, we hardly had a single real lecture. In theory the idea of rewarding schools for good scores was a good one, but I believe it has gotten to a point that our education system can't see the forest for all of the trees.Eric Shoopmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-5847754717514108332012-04-25T09:24:41.729-04:002012-04-25T09:24:41.729-04:00You mean standardized testing results are suppose ...You mean standardized testing results are suppose to be just one form of determining of a student learns something? I thought they were suppose to be the basis upon which parents could determine school choice, indicator for annual school wide time and resoruce distribution, guide for use of financial resources, identifier of effective teachers, basis upon which administrators and teachers retain their employment, empowering agent politicians and private vendor marketing,.....etc.<br /><br />Wow, go figure, just a something to see if your kids learned. Surely it can't be that simple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com