Similarly, each student comes from a different background, having different experiences and qualities of educations. With different backgrounds of culture and education, student’s problem solving processes will be different. Consequently, to try and create a test that does not give an advantage to a certain race or culture is nearly impossible. Additionally, many students suffer from what is known as, test anxiety, extreme stress experienced from taking tests that creates barriers in performance. Reversely, certain students’ brains may be, for some reasons unknown, geared to take tests better than others.…
The education system needs standardization in moderation. If the system narrows down the requirements too much, it is going to make a majority of students look bad because standardization allows a general idea of how well a student performs. Davidson does not provide a solution to this issue, however, there is a way to satisfy both the education system and the student so there is a benefit to both. If an education system makes it a requirement for students to choose their own elective courses, outside of the math and English classes, it allows the students to explore their interests and won’t be labeled as failures when they show…
A major barrier to the effectiveness of formative assessment is the fact that the mark generated doesn't usually count towards a student's final grade and therefore students can be less motivated to put a great deal of effort into such assessment. Brown and Knight (1999) suggest that if used in an effective manner, formative assessment can help students to be more autonomous in their learning and to reflect on their performances and take responsibility for their academic growth. As a tutor, I tend to rely on formative assessment with my students; the reason for this is to…
Qualitative research is not easier or less founded because its data is in the form of words and options, compared to its counterpart quantitative research’s numbers and statistics. These two research methods can work together to come to conclusions about data or they can work completely separately. One cannot be discounted regarding the other. The steps in the collection of data, the ethics, and the reporting of the data are similar and the end results inform the community for a greater good. Simple experiments can be used to show students how to conduct qualitative research and show the differences between quantitative and qualitative research…
This can be a difficult task as it is much easier to “solve” the problem than address the behavior and discuss the proper way to handle the situation with the students. In order to make her classroom more welcoming for all students, Mrs. Arling should implement address these social and emotional issues as research shows this will not only make her classroom more harmonious but, it will also positively impact academic performance (Millenky & Leacock, 2010). At recess students have a debate on what cheating is in order to determine if Myron cheated. While the students did resolve the issue themselves, not all students walked away satisfied and they came to the incorrect conclusion about what cheating is. It is likely some students are still upset over the situation and have negative feelings towards Myron.…
Some students may excel in the classroom yet not perform well on a standardized test because they're not use to the format given to them. Family strife, mental and physical health issues, and language barriers can all affect a student's test score. Some opponents of testing argue that low-performing schools are unfairly targeted by politicians who use academic performance as an excuse to further their own agendas. As much as I as an educator would want to scrap standardized testing all together that’s not an option I have. I believe that in my own classroom I would do my best to teach to the test but also do it in fun creative ways that would not only be challenging but give students ways to be confident that they will pass the test.…
This is not necessarily because of the language choice, but because of the references to teaching. In his article, Mitchell states “…reports that too many goals and objectives in higher education organizations are written as activities for staff rather than as outcomes for students.” (Mitchell). When a student attempts to comprehend this, they do not have the prior knowledge that a teacher may on the goals and objectives that are spoken of. While it may be harder to comprehend for students, the audience being teachers is very…
Some schools begin to interest on the new teaching method, grit; however, grit needs more valid research that can verify its success. Schools should reconsider the belief in the new teaching method, which is grit. Non-cognitive abilities can be divided into two types of measures: questionnaires and performance tasks. Questionnaires are very easy to manage and provide consistent results; however, questionnaires are very susceptible to problems that can affect the outcomes, including misinterpretation by participant, lack of insight or information, insensitivity to short-term changes, the frame of reference, and faking and social desirability bias (Duckworth, Yeager 239). On the other hand, performance tasks allow researcher to receive a careful results basing on different individuals.…
Sherlock was reading the passage for comprehension, even though I knew my answer, I had no idea what was happening. I found it very frustrating. I had a really hard time focusing because it was next to impossible for me to follow along, even with the words right in front of me. While that does not mean that students should not be held accountable for focus in class, teachers need realistic expectations for beginning ELLs. Especially in a special education classroom, I will need to be careful to vary the activities so the students are more motivated to pay attention yet have the opportunity to do something they feel confident they can handle.…
Doing this would also reduce extraneous comments that could lead to the respondent becoming confused about what was being asked of them. To further reduce interviewer- related error in our class survey our professor required us to attend a class that was specifically designed for learning how to be an interviewer, which allowed us to gain some knowledge into how we were suppose to conduct our survey with as little error as possible. Another step that I believe was taken to reduce interviewer error was not asking the gender of the respondent. I believe that Professor Lavrakas did this to ensure as little gender bias as possible. Although, eliminating interviewer error is impossible the steps listed are ways that could help significantly reduce the amount of error made by the…