Comments on: Accountability by Scantron? http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/06/11/accountability-by-scantron/ Musings about technology and learning... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Taking Back Teaching: A Forgotten History | Triangle Tutors http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/06/11/accountability-by-scantron/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Taking Back Teaching: A Forgotten History | Triangle Tutors Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:48:40 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/2008/06/11/accountability-by-scantron/#comment-1640 [...] June 11, 2008, Accountability by Scantron? | Whip Blog [...] [...] June 11, 2008, Accountability by Scantron? | Whip Blog [...]

]]> By: cburell http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/06/11/accountability-by-scantron/comment-page-1/#comment-1637 cburell Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:34:02 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/2008/06/11/accountability-by-scantron/#comment-1637 Well-put, and I have to say I went through the teach-to-the-test pressures you mention when I taught US AP Literature this year. Killed me. But the maddening irony to me is that all the money being poured into education reform does not touch the biggest problem, which I emphasized in my post, and which we inherited from industrial-age schooling (and Farish): too-large class sizes. Maybe standardized tests would be easily passable, if we poured money into adding enough teachers to reduce class sizes by 75% or so, allowing students to have teachers with enough time to know them, and help them learn. Well-put, and I have to say I went through the teach-to-the-test pressures you mention when I taught US AP Literature this year. Killed me.

But the maddening irony to me is that all the money being poured into education reform does not touch the biggest problem, which I emphasized in my post, and which we inherited from industrial-age schooling (and Farish): too-large class sizes.

Maybe standardized tests would be easily passable, if we poured money into adding enough teachers to reduce class sizes by 75% or so, allowing students to have teachers with enough time to know them, and help them learn.

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