#standardised testing

[valerianvisions]

Need to rant for a moment about the way exams and grading systems tainted my academia experience for the last 17 years straight

I love learning. I love education and intellectualism. But having to demonstrate knowledge in a certain way as an autistic person is a nightmare, I can read and converse in foreign languages better than my peers but I struggle to pass the language exams. Studying to give the exam papers what they want is not the same as learning freely. It kills my passion.

I finished my final exam ever yesterday. I will graduate university and be free with qualifications that won’t mean shit in the outside world anyway. And I don’t feel bad for not trying to do honours like I originally considered when I started university:

Graduating isn’t going to kill my academic experience. It’s resuscitating it into a new unrestrained life form.

I am more ready to learn than ever before. All I learn will no longer be defined by a tiny sheet of paper and a number. I will be seen for everything I know, not just what I say on exams.

Academia isn’t an institution. It is life itself

[iberiandoctor]

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[grabbelton]

How Wrong Should You Be?

If you always get 100 percent on your tests, they aren’t hard enough. If you never get above 50 percent, you’re probably in the wrong major

[mizteacher]

#tfw you’re borderline sick, and thoroughly exhausted, but you still have to get through testing season and all you can think of is the sick day you want to take at the end of it, but you worry about what the rest of your colleagues will say when the entire ESL department is out after almost a month of testing and therefore no services, because everyone else in your team wants to do exactly that too and all you really want to say is "f*ck it" and not care but you'll probably go to work anyway because.

[mrvanw]

Gamification of English and our love of standardised testing: Teachers Talking Teaching

Gamification of English and our love of standardised testing: Teachers Talking Teaching

In the most recent episode of Teachers Talking Teaching for Catfish Education – Episode 6: The Wonky Foundations of PISA and Turning Books to Games – we talk about the very cool work of Kip Glazer. Kip Glazer has answered that question that is quite often posed: Sure the flipped classroom/gamification works well for your subject, but how would it work for English (insert any subject you want here…

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[schoolsofthought-pl]

Why is Australia's education system going backwards?

We assess some of the most common arguments put forward to explain why Australian students are going backwards on key global tests like PISA, released this week.

[schoolsofthought-pl]

Why 15-year-olds don't care about PISA rankings

My peers who took part in this test were unanimous in that they did not, to the best of their ability, attempt the exam.