Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for March 06, 2019

Gabby is so right about that. Heck, all you’ve got to do is decide what the scorers want to see for an answer and mark that one. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist.

I taught a music appreciation class at a local college for more than 20 years. I saw the creeping influence of increasing standardized testing. The last few years that I tested my students, many of them couldn’t cope with fill-in-the-blank or multi-part questions. If it wasn’t multiple-choice, fill in the bubble, spoon-fed answers, they became upset. And they didn’t want to deal with any extra information (“will this be on the test?”). Intellectual curiosity was a foreign concept.

A recent thread elsewhere about paper ballots indicates that many people could have used more practice filling in bubbles.

The Govt has almost reached its goal of dumbing down the country – give it a few more years and they will succeed…

If we didn’t have standardized tests would we have any standards?

Fast forward 20 years and Gabby will be complaining about how the educational system failed her.

Standard testing isn’t used in high education countries like Finland, Japan, S. Korea and Japan.

If you want to become a conformist, join the Army.

I know it’s just a comic, but kids like Gabby wouldn’t have made it in school with in the 50’s with their smart mouths. Back then, the teachers were allowed to set you straight.

Standardized tests are good for telling you how well you take a standardized test. And not much more.