1. What did you learn that was new to you from these chapters?
The new thing that I have learned from these chapters, especially from “Defending childhood, pg 162” is the alienation of students who do not get motivated with the high-stakes testing. Learning has been one of the very tricky part of human history, differing and trying to maintain the universal purpose of learning, many people have come up with different ways to ensure that learning procedures and monitored and maintained for the benefit of students and parents. This is the reason why people have come up with testing and one of the core determinants of the extent of learning and development. People believe that testing should motivate students and therefore, it a student fails
The new thing that I have learned from these chapters, especially from “Defending childhood, pg 162” is the alienation of students who do not get motivated with the high-stakes testing. Learning has been one of the very tricky part of human history, differing and trying to maintain the universal purpose of learning, many people have come up with different ways to ensure that learning procedures and monitored and maintained for the benefit of students and parents. This is the reason why people have come up with testing and one of the core determinants of the extent of learning and development. People believe that testing should motivate students and therefore, it a student fails