Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Opposite Extremes

Our students took one of their state standardized tests today. In a group of 21, one kid finished all 60 questions in 20 minutes without using his scrap paper once, submitted his online work without permission, and then laid his head on the desk and went to sleep, and one kid took an hour on question number one.

Can we agree that neither of these strategies represents a healthy approach to demonstrating learning?

3 comments:

  1. I spent an hour on question one once. Afterwards the teacher publicly berated me for not knowing how to take a test.

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  2. Was yours a multiple choice question with no calculation involved?

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