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 A Profound Message from The Big Test 
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P. 40-41 in a letter from Brigham to Learned, Brigham commented that "...we may look for the inevitable distortion of education in the terms of tests. And that means that mathematics will continue to be completely departmentalied and broken into disintegrated bits (this happens a lot today), that the sciences will become highly verbalized and that computation, manipulation, and thinking in terms other than verbal will be minimized (true), that languages will be taught for linguistic skills only without reference to literary values, that English will be taught for reading alone, and that practice and drill in the writing of English will disappear." It truly scares me that this letter, written in 1938, could describe the problems that we educators do face today with having to teach to the test.

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Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:18 pm
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I completely agree. I had marked that same quote. It is interesting to watch the difference of instruction from kindergarten up. Departmentalization begins in early elementary, when testing begins and instruction becomes fragmented. This departmentalizing increases with each grade. It is frightening.

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I find it scary for the kids. While we teachers can gripe as to how things are run and different SCOS are developed, the changes impact the learning of the individual children we strive to educate!

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