tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post6596706906802485148..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: Carol Burris' testimony on the current testing regimePatrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-51546821835496324682012-06-14T14:28:33.372-04:002012-06-14T14:28:33.372-04:00I teach IB and do value the rigor and the freedom ...I teach IB and do value the rigor and the freedom that means. Getting students to adapt to this different type of approach to learning and evaluation gets progressively harder to do as each year the students have been exposed to earlier and earlier grades of scantron/ learn and dump type testing. IB is very time intensive on the part of the teacher- reading written responses instead of scantrons means many more hours to evaluate tests and give quality feedback. But, these tests are scrutinized, feedback given about them afterward and there is the ability to actual see these expensive to produce exams after they are given. Pearson could take a page from the IB about how to develop assessments that teachers can actually their heads up while conducting them instead of being yoked into a testing regime that no self respecting educator can call educationally valuable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com