Is this going to be on the test?

• Autores: Patricia Blanton
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 50, Nº. 7, 2012, pág. 445
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A few days ago I heard a fellow teacher say she felt that her primary job was to prepare students to take the ACT. Later I watched a video showing a teacher using Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI), a highly touted program that has been given major grant money from Google to train teachers in this technique. I was appalled when the teacher in the �training� video for the program began the lesson by telling students that the reason they were studying the particular topic was because it would be on a high-stakes test they would be taking at the end of the course. Is this really the message we want to send out to students? Should they be told the only reason they would learn something is that it is going to be �on the test�?