Wanting to become a teacher, are tests a good
indication of understanding how well my students know their information?
Growing up plan tests where just something that would be
given every year for an entire day, never did any of the students think that it
was something of importance. A piece of paper was given and you were to just simply
color in a bubble. It was easy to just want to make a picture or something of
that sort because to us it didn’t matter. We may have been able to color in
those bubbles and pictures when we were younger but as each year went on the
test became more of an importance. Those simple little bubbles were about to
determine our futures. The schools we were going to and the places we would be
at. It was no longer a little game, we had to take it seriously, and we were
basing our futures on one test. For me my first big plan test was going to
decide if I was talented enough to get into a prep school, and more so decide
what classes I would be in. Was it really far that a simple test was going to
decide what I did? To me it didn’t seem so, how could this one little piece of
paper tell a school of teachers how smart I was or wasn’t? Weren’t my teachers
keeping track of my grades for a reason, or was that just something they did
for fun. I worked hard for those grades because I thought that they mattered. If
they were that important, than why was a simple test determining my future? As
years went on and more test were given I slowly started to understand, that was
until it came time for the most popular tests the SAT and ACT. These two tests
were really going to determine the types of places that I would be able to get
into. Colleges looked at each test as if that was the most important thing, was
a 3 hour test really going to be able to determine the colleges I got into?
What was the point of four years of schooling if in the end it would come down
to a test to describe how smart I was? Teachers work towards helping students
understand the information and that is why they give tests. A plan test on the other
terms doesn’t really matter if you understand the information at all it is more
based on just the score. After taking the test there is no way of figuring out
what you need to work on exactly. That doesn’t seem very fair to anyone
involved with it. Asimple test that I may give my students is a lot different than a plan test that will determine their futures.
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