TAAS tests and promotion

[AlphaFrog]

I remember having a teacher who used to judge his performance on the absence of C grades. He said that A students are always going to be A students, and F students are always going to be F students, but C students are those who could have gotten A's & B's if the material was presented right. I don't know how much merit there is to that, but it's an interesting concept.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I remember having a teacher who used to judge his performance on the absence of C grades. He said that A students are always going to be A students, and F students are always going to be F students, but C students are those who could have gotten A's & B's if the material was presented right. I don't know how much merit there is to that, but it's an interesting concept.

you know, i can agree with that.

but isnt it legit that C students could just as well get D's and F's if they really didnt give a damn?

and yeah, how bout an award for weirdest SPAM?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by tld221

you know, i can agree with that.

but isnt it legit that C students could just as well get D's and F's if they really didnt give a damn?

and yeah, how bout an award for weirdest SPAM?

Well, the thing about his class, was that he had a "if you don't do the homework, you can't pass, and if you do the homework, you can't fail" policy. Homework was to complete the study guide for the test. The study guide was just about word for word what the test was. And, as long as you DID the homework, you got an A+. He didn't actually read your homework, figuring that you're shooting yourself in the foot for the test if you didn't do it right. This was also a required religion course that had no basic, regular and advanced levels, so he had to make it passable for all.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Well, the thing about his class, was that he had a "if you don't do the homework, you can't pass, and if you do the homework, you can't fail" policy. Homework was to complete the study guide for the test. The study guide was just about word for word what the test was. And, as long as you DID the homework, you got an A+. He didn't actually read your homework, figuring that you're shooting yourself in the foot for the test if you didn't do it right. This was also a required religion course that had no basic, regular and advanced levels, so he had to make it passable for all.

The only thing that's weird about this to me is how unlike ed. school thought this guy's assessments were.

He assessed knowledge, which I think we should do more of, but teachers are constantly bombarded with the need to teach "higher level thinking skills," so teaching in a way that assessment only came from testing over exactly what was on the study guide would be bad, bad, bad in the eyes of many education professors and state and local curriculum guides and policies.