Testing for Intelligence?
A lot of things have change in the way students are being evaluated as to measuring their intelligence, since my grade school days. This topic has been an on-going debate for many years, there are many assessment resources and tools available in regards of assessing children's intelligence. Standardized testing, IQ testing, indirect and direct assessments, and many more are just a few of the assessing tools. But are these testing tools really measuring the student as holistically as possible? The student social and emotional stability and health and nutrient needs are being meant. I am split in the middle of this education topic. As an educator I believe the teacher need to evaluate their student's prior knowledge to better decide the approach and teaching strategies to prepare the lesson plans to match their educational needs. The approach and the tools is what is important to me, Some of these standardized testing are so genetic and does not really captured the student holistically.
"Assessment is not an end in itself but a vehicle for educational improvement. Its effective practice, then, begins with and enacts a vision of the kinds of learning we most value for students and strive to help them achieve. Educational values should drive not only what we choose to assess but also how we do so. Where questions about educational mission and values are skipped over, assessment threatens to be an exercise in measuring what's easy, rather than a process of improving what we really care about."
The education system in Canada seem to have many similarities and many differences with The United States, students can end their schooling at 16, they have standardized testing (they start testing from 13-16) but are made by the administration depending on their province. Some of the teachers feel a lot of pressure by the board to have students do well on the standardized testing, and they do not receive incentive paid.
"All provinces develop their own assessments. Most have province-wide examinations for certain year groups, during which the assessment measures numeracy and literacy, and core-subject tests to determine graduation eligibility in senior high school. In all provinces, parents also receive regular reports on their child’s progress."
Resource
http://ncee.org/what-we-do/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/canada-overview/canada-instructional-systems/
https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/teaching-learning/assessing-student-learning/nine-principles
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09695940802164226?scroll=top&needAccess=true
A lot of things have change in the way students are being evaluated as to measuring their intelligence, since my grade school days. This topic has been an on-going debate for many years, there are many assessment resources and tools available in regards of assessing children's intelligence. Standardized testing, IQ testing, indirect and direct assessments, and many more are just a few of the assessing tools. But are these testing tools really measuring the student as holistically as possible? The student social and emotional stability and health and nutrient needs are being meant. I am split in the middle of this education topic. As an educator I believe the teacher need to evaluate their student's prior knowledge to better decide the approach and teaching strategies to prepare the lesson plans to match their educational needs. The approach and the tools is what is important to me, Some of these standardized testing are so genetic and does not really captured the student holistically.
"Assessment is not an end in itself but a vehicle for educational improvement. Its effective practice, then, begins with and enacts a vision of the kinds of learning we most value for students and strive to help them achieve. Educational values should drive not only what we choose to assess but also how we do so. Where questions about educational mission and values are skipped over, assessment threatens to be an exercise in measuring what's easy, rather than a process of improving what we really care about."
The education system in Canada seem to have many similarities and many differences with The United States, students can end their schooling at 16, they have standardized testing (they start testing from 13-16) but are made by the administration depending on their province. Some of the teachers feel a lot of pressure by the board to have students do well on the standardized testing, and they do not receive incentive paid.
"All provinces develop their own assessments. Most have province-wide examinations for certain year groups, during which the assessment measures numeracy and literacy, and core-subject tests to determine graduation eligibility in senior high school. In all provinces, parents also receive regular reports on their child’s progress."
Resource
http://ncee.org/what-we-do/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/canada-overview/canada-instructional-systems/
https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/teaching-learning/assessing-student-learning/nine-principles
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09695940802164226?scroll=top&needAccess=true
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