I snatched this comments from the Jose Vilson blog. It’s related to my last post and his
Check it out. I think it’s pretty insightful.
Re: teaching to tests. In doing so, we give students the permission to forget. By saying you need to know this for the test implies that you don’t need to know it anywhere else. I am not at all shocked that students forget what they once knew for a big test. We live in a memorize, spew out, and forget educational culture. Still.
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