Re:Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores
by tokenadult on Friday June 11, 2010 @08:50AM
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The tragedy is that teachers who don't teach to the test and provide an excellent education that is tailored to the children they have are starting to worry about the security of their jobs, whereas poor teachers who have no real ability except to regurgitate the texts and drill the kids on process and recitation are relatively safe.
Evidence for this empirical statement? I have my doubts about this, because the best teachers I had in childhood (too few, but more than one) were able both to engage the pupils from the dullest to the brightest with deep, thoughtful questions and able to cover the fundamental facts of the lessons with efficiency.
Re:Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores
by RiderOfGiraffes on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:58PM
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I only have the information based on talking to perhaps 100 or 150 different teachers over the course of each and every year, and the conference I was just at raised this very question during a question and answer session.
The tragedy is that teachers who don't teach to the test and provide an excellent education that is tailored to the children they have are starting to worry about the security of their jobs, whereas poor teachers who have no real ability except to regurgitate the texts and drill the kids on process and recitation are relatively safe.