Your Capstone course features several projects and ongoing academic responsibilities but no "tests" per se. I hear the concern/criticism all too often that students have to read books and listen to lectures but the material they are learning is not always tested in the course. This may lead one to question why would students be required to learn anything which would not be assessed via quiz, paper, project, or examination.
The following music video captures the spirit and sentiment of so many educators (especially since state-wide standardized testing began influencing budgetary decisions)...
No comments required for this post, just consider that learning is always the goal, not testing.
Have a good weekend and keep working on those research-based creative project ideas (& your Mentorship Blog, reading Pink's A Whole New Mind, and practicing your effective communication skills for your service experience).
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I know a comment is not required but I just have to. I feel like I should be in a church right now. I would have my hands up in the air shouting a big "AMEN!". Since Education is one of my areas we talk about No Child Left Behind a lot. Good idea in theory I suppose, but horrible practicality. Whatever happened to learning for the pure sake of learning and expanding your mind?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, Dani! AMEN!! :)
ReplyDeleteWell, from your remarks, the topic is COMPLETELY subjective. There are many things which can be learned from, and are not in the hard, fast structure of educational purviews. If you take the views of pure psychologists, we learn at an astronomical pace in our first year of life. Yet, some are walking and talking by 7 months of age, and some take twice as long.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a real brain twister, what has happened in education over the past 50 years? At what pace have those changes been made? Plus, how many times have fundamental presentations like arithmetic been "re-invented" in just the past ten years? For the serious minded, so ends my offering of food for thought.