http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/02/08/another-voice-heard-from-on-testing/ Comments, reflections and occasional brainstorms Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.4-bleeding http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/02/08/another-voice-heard-from-on-testing/#comment-38055 stimulate » “If you think the baby is cute, you should see the pictures” Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:26:09 +0000 http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/02/08/another-voice-heard-from-on-testing/#comment-38055 [...] I found this feel-good shot at testing in a Cincinnatti Enquirer article by Timothy Leonard via Anne Davis’s EduBlog Insights.  Though the article itself lacks content, I thought that the following analogy was tremendously effective.  And hilariously on-target. “Scores are important. But they must be viewed in the context of what teachers know about what is happening in their classrooms. Under the current regime, what is happening in the classroom, if viewed at all, is viewed in the context of the scores. This is nuts. It’s like a parent saying, ‘If you think the baby is cute, you should see the pictures’ - except in this case all you see is a number.” [emphasis mine] [...] […] I found this feel-good shot at testing in a Cincinnatti Enquirer article by Timothy Leonard via Anne Davis’s EduBlog Insights.  Though the article itself lacks content, I thought that the following analogy was tremendously effective.  And hilariously on-target. “Scores are important. But they must be viewed in the context of what teachers know about what is happening in their classrooms. Under the current regime, what is happening in the classroom, if viewed at all, is viewed in the context of the scores. This is nuts. It’s like a parent saying, ‘If you think the baby is cute, you should see the pictures’ - except in this case all you see is a number.” [emphasis mine] […]

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