Re: Standardized testing
Rosalie Ann Moore Dance (ramd@math.umd.edu <ramd@math.umd.edu>)
Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:23:56 -0500
To Patrick Thompson,
Good luck to your local school system in developing an
equitable yet effective sscreening process. What is their
conjecture regarding their recent testing tool? Do they
think it was meaningless and gave random results>? Or do they
think that in some manner the students sho scored high on
it really are intellectually 'gifted' considerably above
average but that no one has yet taught them to read? Or
something else?
There would be those who would say that if it takes a
gifted and talented ed. program to discover that students
are not learning to read that maybe we need more such programs....
Others would say quite the contrary, I am sure. There was a
recen t article in the Washington Post by a high school English
teacher in Alexandria about two rgraduates of his school that he
considered to be rather more gifted (not his word) than average,
neither of whom were taught how to read by the public schools of
Alexandria, Virginia (by no means one of the nations weakest school
systems). What are we doing???
Rosalie Dance