I've chosen to explore the issue of school assessment because of my own experience. When I was in elementary school, my teachers were more concerned about prepping us for assessment tests than teaching us more valuable subjects. For two years I struggled with things as simple as handwriting because my teachers didn't take the time to notice I was writing the wrong way. In the middle of my third grade year, my mother pulled me out of the city school to be home schooled. She saw that i was writing wrong and noticed other gaps in my education. During the four years I was home schooled I learned one on one with my mom mathematics, health, science, history, geography, spelling, reading, and even photography. By the time I went back to school in the eighth grade I was already way ahead of the other students. On my placement test, my reading score was higher than that of a high school senior. I was placed in the highest math and science classes that there was but even then I was ahead. I was shocked to find out that students didn't know how to do things as simple as add and subtract fractions and they didn't know how to solve any problems without a calculator. And my history teacher didn't know one thing about American history because he was the football coach! I went to a public school until my junior year of high school and then I chose to be home schooled me last two years. I couldn't take it anymore, most of my teachers didn't care which made me unmotivated. This time I taught myself and got into college without the help of anyone. I'm curious to see what I learn about this problem and if I can find a feasible soltion.
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I see more topics of school assessment are starting to float to the surface of the rest. It is good to othere working on the situation of the education department. I am working on the same topic as well. It will be interesting to see what you discover as you do research.
In my blog I was just wondering if there really is a big difference and this helps explain that! The teachers definitely seem to be an issue, but is that all there is to it? I'm doing this topic too and I would like to know a bit more about it as well.
A lot of people are claiming that all the teachers do is prepare you for these assessment tests. I'm wondering where the root of the problem really is. Is it the tests, teachers, or students? Everyone doing this topic has a lot of research to do!
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