I recently followed Education Week on Twitter and I have been reading a lot of their articles since. Because I spend time on twitter anyway, following these educational accounts has really exposed me to a lot of information about my future career. Today I read an article about assessment and testing. I, for one, am not a very big fan of testing. I absolutely despise standardized testing and with good reason. I have done it. I have been taking standardized tests since elementary school and I understand thoroughly how completely uneffective they are. What the English Teachers in this article are proposing is not this testing I hold so dearly (sarcasm) but a reformed method that will actually work. They have a survey that is still active that asks teachers to suggest methods of assessment that they use in their classrooms that they find effective. Needless to say, these methods that real teachers are practicing are not seen in the standardized tests I trudged through. I think it is time to eradicate standardized testing and implement a much more effective form of assessment. What that assessment is, I'm not sure yet. But if teachers work together to find better ideas, I know they'll find something great.
You can read this article here.
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