“You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.” ThinkingKnowsMayUseKidsRememberNationsTeacherUniqueTestsScoreTest Scores Author:John Merrow
“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsSchoolThreeCasesTeacherStupidLowsExpectationsTestsThree YearsYou Re StupidLow ExpectationsI Was Stupid Author:Robert Sternberg
“In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.” BookHelpingSchoolAsksQualityTeacherTeachingStudentsTestsNotesForbidden Author:William Glasser
“I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.” TeacherTeachingStudentsTaughtLessonsTestsImportanceBasesBlessedValuableI Have LearnedGood TeacherValuable Lessons Author:Erin Gruwell
“I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.” JesusTeacherTestsThirdsPopsGradesApostlesThird GradeQuizBookworms Author:Caroline Leavitt
“The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.” IdeasMightResultsTeacherTeachingTomorrowTestsOppositesNot Interested Author:Noam Chomsky
“People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.” PeopleThinkingWantMeanRealDifferencesLevelsTeacherTeachingFieldsStudentsBuildingHighestTestsImpactMeetingsExcellencePerseveranceCriticalAcademicAspireCritical ThinkingPlaying FieldsFosteringLove Of LearningAcademic Excellence Author:Wendy Kopp
“Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.” WorldWellsImportantHandsTodayTeacherStudentsCapableStandardsGainsTestsFoundationEducationalThriveCaptureToday's World Author:Wendy Kopp
“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.” WayWantHelpingHandsSchoolTeacherProgressExampleTestsProfessionAttractivePrincipalCurriculumGreat TeacherBest TeacherPrepsSchool Curriculum Author:Wendy Kopp
“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.” IfsFeelsChildrenMadeProblemSchoolUsedParentWonderTeacherTaxesTestsPolicePopulationBurdenUsed To BeGuiltyContributionScoreNeglectPsychologistHardyTest ScoresTax BurdenPopulation Problem Author:C. Sommerville
“I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.” IfsChildrenSchoolTeacherPleaseTestsAskingRelevant Author:Rafe Esquith
“Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.” GivingTeacherGiving UpTestsSpeciesGood TeacherEndangered Species Author:Rafe Esquith
“So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.” LongCountrySchoolJobsTeacherStudentsMembersTestsUnionsInternationalTreatedScoreContinuingPublic SchoolPupilsTeachers Unions Author:Thomas Sowell
“In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.” KnowsKindOrderGivenForgetTakenTeacherInformationStudentsPicksTestsForgottenExpectedWitnessDataPerceiveSensationsHypothesis Author:Peter Medawar
“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused. You can't test what sort of teacher someone will be, because testing what someone knows isn't the same as what someone is able to share.” KnowsTwoAbleJobsResultsTeacherShareTeachingTestsConfusedTesting Author:Esme Raji Codell
“You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.” TeacherTestsBoundariesCardsReportsReport Cards Author:Jordan Francis