I found two quotes that I liked.
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
-Albert Einstein
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
-George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Testing for Intelligence?
I believe that when we assess school-aged children we need to be careful not to judge a child when we assess them. I think that it is important to test children on educational matters, like reading, writing, and mathematics, but I also think it is important to consider the children as individuals.
ITALY
In Italy pupils are tested on average about one test per subject per term, which goes towards the continual assessment of their performance, but does not count all that much. But for serious, GCSE-type, make-or-break exams, from the ages of 13 to 18 Italian students enjoy a long exam holiday, all the way up to the maturita exam which they take at the end of liceo, the senior schools in the Italian systems. On the other hand, the continual assessments can be rigorous, and if students at the top high schools score less than six out of 10 in two or mor e subjects they run a serious risk of having to take the year again (Cassidy,S).
GERMANY
In Germany, Germany's state-run primary school pupils start their education at the age of five or six. For the first two school years, they are not given marks for their academic performance. Parents are merely handed a school report on their child's abilities and behavior at the end of each school year.
From the age of seven, students are subjected to continuous assessment. Every piece of work, including tests and homework, is marked on a 40/60 per cent oral/written basis. The marks go towards an annual school report.
When pupils leave primary school at 10 or 11, they are provided with a recommendation, based on continuous assessment, to decide what type of secondary school they attend(Cassidy,S).
Resource
Cassidy,S. Our Children tested to destruction,(2008, February). retrieved from
http://www.independent.co.uk/education.com
ITALY
In Italy pupils are tested on average about one test per subject per term, which goes towards the continual assessment of their performance, but does not count all that much. But for serious, GCSE-type, make-or-break exams, from the ages of 13 to 18 Italian students enjoy a long exam holiday, all the way up to the maturita exam which they take at the end of liceo, the senior schools in the Italian systems. On the other hand, the continual assessments can be rigorous, and if students at the top high schools score less than six out of 10 in two or mor e subjects they run a serious risk of having to take the year again (Cassidy,S).
GERMANY
In Germany, Germany's state-run primary school pupils start their education at the age of five or six. For the first two school years, they are not given marks for their academic performance. Parents are merely handed a school report on their child's abilities and behavior at the end of each school year.
From the age of seven, students are subjected to continuous assessment. Every piece of work, including tests and homework, is marked on a 40/60 per cent oral/written basis. The marks go towards an annual school report.
When pupils leave primary school at 10 or 11, they are provided with a recommendation, based on continuous assessment, to decide what type of secondary school they attend(Cassidy,S).
Resource
Cassidy,S. Our Children tested to destruction,(2008, February). retrieved from
http://www.independent.co.uk/education.com
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