EDUC 7510-Discussion Topic 6- Testing
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EDUC 7510: Discussion Topic 6- Testing After reading the article by Dylan Wiliam, provide a brief discussion post in response to the question: • What do you envision as a plan for standardized testing that could capitalize on the benefits to student achievement, while at the same time providing room for contextually based diversity? Things to consider might include:
Timing and/or frequency of testing
Balancing teacher judgment and external testing scores
Subject areas tested? Integrated subjects tested?
Partially contextualized standardized tests
Performance based test, etc. • Limit, 300 words. Be sure to cite evidence (in APA) from any of the materials so far from this class or the •
Please respond to one peer’s post.
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Be sure to read over the rubric and the example discussion posting in the Start Here area of the course to ensure that your postings meet the criteria. As an educator, I understand that testing is needed to gage student’s comprehension of the information taught and knowledge gained on concepts and standards. The testing also allows the teachers to recognize if the instruction was effective in terms of their delivery and what if anything needs to change. I believe that currently in our country there is too much testing. We hear the words accountability used on some many levels and in so many contexts when it comes to testing, students, and teachers. “To be accoun
table can mean to be responsible, to be answerable, to be blameworthy, or even to be liable” (Wiliam, n.d.). When thinking of high stakes testing normally, we see that the students and the teachers are the ones held mostly responsible. “True accountability
in education should not be facilely linked to mechanical examination results, for there is a very distinct danger that the pedagogical methods employed to attain those results will themselves be mechanical and the education of children will be so much the worse (Wiliam, n.d.).
EDUC 7510: Discussion Topic 6- Testing To combat this, I reason testing should be limited from formative, summative, and high-
stakes. And that everyone involved in analyzing test results must understand that schools that already and consistently have high achieving students scores will always remain higher than those schools with the very opposite. And just as educators must understand and differentiate between our students so should those that put the plan of “high
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stakes” testing into the schools. I agree that reading and math should be tested. However, I also conceive that because technology is so important in the world today and will continue be so influential science should also be a main focus of these standardized test. But because the other subjects are not tested should not mean that they are than deem less important. Reference Wiliam, D. (n.d.). Standardized Testing and School Accountability. Educational Psychologist. Tyler & Francis Group.
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