In this weeks current connection we read about test prep. It made me ask several questions about Should test prep techniques that produce fraudulent gains be considered cheating? Also Why do you think teachers feel pressured to teach test tricks and bad test prep? We see test prep being taught in every school for ways to do better on test, but does it really help students do better on test. The meaning of test are for what the student is struggling on and what do they need to prove on. It also helps the teacher with what do they need to help the students work on what did they struggle the most on.
Some test taking strategies are remembering symbols, creating a song or sentence to rember things even a word. You can also do easier problems first then do the harder ones later, this helps by taking your time and managing it. Tips and tricks can surely help you with test but my question is what are test good for besides telling teachers what you struggle with, why cant you just tell the teacher your struggling with a topic instead of taking a test to tell them?
I read a article from Arizon daily sun and the article talks about how Arizona changes up there standarizing testing every 5 years to different topics. This change takes teachers two to three years to grasp the whole material to actually understand what there teaching the students. This isnt fair to the teachers or students at all because having to be taught a different material every five years is hard. I asked a question to the class if they were required to take standardized test, and i noticed that all the kids that lived in ohio said yes that it was required for them to take them while the new york kids said they didnt take them after middle school ended. As a kid my mother made me take the neww york state exam every year until highschool as a way to learn test prep strategies she said it would be good for me to take test now so im use to it by college. I agree with my mom but i think its up to a certain extent that kids should be taking these test. I think once you get to highschool you should be focusing more on outside problems and connecting them to the topic your learning in class. Instead kids are basically getting taught what the state wants you to learn, students should have a say in there education.
At the end of the day i gained knowledge and a different aspect on what I think about standardized testing and how it should be used. We see a problem with standardized testing in America and how can we fix it?
Aidan Dugan introduction 