tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2330611682980540844..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Stop Talking About Student AchievementPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-43139457737176113912019-04-06T17:39:37.191-04:002019-04-06T17:39:37.191-04:00Not sure if you saw this, but I was sorely aggrava...Not sure if you saw this, but I was sorely aggravated by the Time piece written by Andrew Rotherman on the issue of the talking pineapple, about how poor Pearson (which he admitted had hired him as a consultant on occasion) was only guilty of not being as forth-coming as they perhaps should be. He places the blame squarely on those darned SJWs who make it so hard to use pieces of substance on the exams, necessitating such bland pieces as the Pinkwater story. He also says that the problem was that the Daily News only printed a small excerpt from the story that didn't include the owl, and therefore made the question about the owl pointless.<br /><br />He ignored the core point that a series of questions like this is not only poorly written, but that it doesn't TEST anything. The point of a test is as a metric to determine development.<br /><br />What do these questions show? Why would asking a student what WOULD have happened in the story if the events depicted were ENTIRELY DIFFERENT show you the child's progress on any stage of Bloom's sainted taxonomy? Rotherman seems to have swallowed the Kool-aid so completely that he's not even asking what flavor it is. He can't comprehend a world where someone would (with all information, functioning mental capacities, and walking through every step of Bloom's pyramid logically) argue against the concept of comprehensive standardized testing. It's bonkers.Mediaman73https://coldattic.wordpress.com/about/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-47435776540110992542019-04-03T16:07:22.294-04:002019-04-03T16:07:22.294-04:00Thank you Peter for your insightful comments. Yes ...Thank you Peter for your insightful comments. Yes i am grappling with this too. Education policy seems to focus on a narrow definition of schooling -achievement. In addition, achievement is narrowed down further to standardised tests. In my country Australia, it is narrowed further to PISA standardised tests. In addition, the focus on Educational research has been on those academics who focus on achievement. It used to be Marzano here but has switched to Hattie for the past 10 years. I'm trying to show that the research that governs policy is very very narrow. Like you i've tried to explore what schooling means.George Lilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03981535542840463843noreply@blogger.com