วันอาทิตย์ที่ 18 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Our schools exam system is no longer fit for purpose | Mehdi Hasan

English students are the most tested in the industrialized world. The countries with the best education for their children not subject to this misery

was a sad spectacle. On Thursday, the heads of review boards in England four, and three of his examiners, presented to the Thatcher Room Portcullis House to be interviewed by members of the Education Committee of the selection. The reviewers were secretly filmed by the Daily Telegraph which offers advice on how teachers improve their performance - to tell them the issues to their students could expect to review, advise on how to "hammer test technique "- and subsequently suspended by their advice.

However, in the midst of its litany of excuses ("We all make mistakes," complained one reviewer, "It was a figure of speech disposable," lamented another), some observations are indicative only. Mark Dawe, executive director of the OCR examination board, told MPs that "there is enormous pressure on the system." Paul Barnes Suspended examiner admitted that "there is pressure to improve results," and it is a "competitive world".

They have a point. Corruption trial of the plan is just a symptom. The disease is the tyranny of the test itself, a culture of relentless testing, league tables and deceptive artificial competition between schools. Our review system is not fit for purpose.

English children are now the most tested children in the industrialized world (through decentralization, the Scottish and Welsh cousins ??do not suffer the same burden of the review), the average student will subjected to at least 70 tests during their school career.

This concern is to test the bad schools, teachers and students. For schools, the costs have skyrocketed spending review rate nearly doubled to more than 300 million pounds between 2002 and 2010. Surprisingly, the tests now represent the largest cost to the schools of the second to pay the teachers. "

For teachers, it is very disheartening and discouraging to have to "teach to the test" as many of them are forced to do so. For many, education has become dull, narrow and boring. No rewards for creativity, just the results, results, results.

For students, evidence of high risk are well documented sources of stress and anxiety. According to the charities for children, this can manifest as physical sleep disorders, loss, enuresis, or skin.

critics present system are many and include the Education Committee, Society for the kids, the Royal Society and several academics. In 2009, for example, a review of Cambridge University on the national primary tests are described as "the elephant in the curriculum," and noted that in the last year of school "wide primary to compete with deep lower than it should be tested. "

Mansell should be required reading for the test obsessed with the Education Secretary Michael Gove, the shadow and Labour, Stephen Twigg. Politically motivated interference in the examination system, both the Conservatives and Labour has done little to improve the standards of the school or student performance. Over the past decade, according to the Programme for International Student of the OECD (PISA) of the global survey of 15 years, Britain has fallen fourth to sixteenth in science, seventh to 25th literacy and the eighth of 28 in math.

OECD Economic Survey of 2011 shows how, despite the expenditure per pupil in school has increased dramatically over the past decade, improvements in educational outcomes have been limited, driven only by the grade inflation. The OECD notes that "the evidence of the high participation" have proliferated in England, yet they can often "perverse effects" and "lead to the abandonment of non-cognitive skills."

What if we take a radically different approach? What if all the tests thrown endless abolished school boards-grabbing title in the league, and free teachers to teach children to think instead of passing a test?


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