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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
It's my opinion that the best thing that can be said for standardized tests is that they're controversial -- and that's being real kind.
But hey, if a good percentage of students pass the tests, we're doing good -- whether or not they learn anything except how to pass the tests by rote and really don't gain any knowledge of the subject.
Right?
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That is the way they said one has mastered the subject at hand!!! For some tests it is not fair. For others, well, that's the only way to really know. I know I would want my physicians to have passed their board exams when they put me under anesthesia. And the same to my pilots and few other professions.
But for little kids, test passing is somewhat retarded. And for older kids-junior/senior high school aged, a life and death situational test seems rather too much when they have not been taught the ramifications of their actions. And in poor schools, they only learn their ramifications before a judge.