Loganlea SHS: Deregulation Of Curriculum

Standardized test have been a means measuring student performance. Some important questions that always come up regarding standardized test are what are the tests really measuring? Are they measuring a person’s intelligence? Their ability to perform well on standardized tests? Or just some random quantity of the person’s IQ? When examining the issues around which these tests are given and the content of the tests themselves, it becomes apparent that however useful the tests may be for standardizing a group’s intellectual ability, they are not a good indicator of intelligence.

While standardized tests are problematic at all ages and levels of schooling, they are especially questionable in primary grades. In these years children's growth is idiosyncratic (Russel, 2002). Skills needed for school's success are in their most vulnerable stage. Failure at this age can be devastating. 'My six year old is already crying himself to sleep at night worrying about his SATs,' states Mark Adams from BBC news

areas the number of children that achieve GCSE’s on leaving secondary school is less than

The literacy crisis is a very prevalent issue in the United States of America. Many Americans are not proficient in basic skills, such as reading and writing. Sara Gilgore, a writer for Education Week, interviews two early learning experts, Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine. Guernsey states that, “more than two-thirds of American 4th graders are not reading at grade level in this country” (Gilgore). It is important for children at young ages to start building basic literacy skills because as children get older it will be harder for them to learn. This in turn will affect the child’s ability to learn and comprehend more advanced subjects in the future. Guernsey is surely right about elementary school students not being proficient in literacy because, as she may not be aware, recent studies have shown that twelfth grade students are also not adept at reading. Lynn Olson, a writer for Education Week, describes the results from a recent twelfth grade National Assessment of Educational Progress, “31 percent scored ‘below basic’ in mathematics, and 23 percent performed below basic in reading” (Olson). The percentages are already significant and if the U.S. continues not to do anything, then the amount of low performing students will continue to increase. Those unfamiliar with school systems may be interested to know that the type and quality of education a student is given, basically boils down to whether or not the school is located in an urban district and if the school

Imagine walking into class the day of a school-wide exam and your teacher offer you two choices, A.) Play fun games outside with your friends or , B.) Take a boring an extremely long test. If your answer was A then get ready to put down that #2 pencil and pick up that bouncy ball. In almost every school, both local and international students are required to take standardized test and exams. The results of these tests are used for a number of reasons. Many children miss out on a wide variety of academic opportunities because of the results of the test that deemed them not proficient,based on their results of a standardized test. Unfortunately, a A standardized test has been a stressor to students academic lives.

The article also discusses how the country’s highest achievers are increasing their performance in reading while the country’s lowest achievers are preforming at record lows. A survey produced by US News showed that only thirty-seven percent of high school seniors are scoring proficient or higher in reading. However, just twenty-five percent of the students score high enough in math. The survey also showed that the students in the lower performing percentile dropped four points in math and six points in reading when compared to the previous year. This survey and this article as a whole stand to prove that most high school students are becoming lesser prepared as the years’ tack on. As the survey supported, high school seniors are not performing proficiently enough to keep up with college coursework. If high school seniors are not performing proficiently enough, then they will not be able to make the transition from high school to college. Over time, this could possibly eliminate the high school students who do not perform efficiently from furthering their education at all. This can all be related to the high schools not preparing students for college. This is a very good argument and article because it proves that most high school seniors are not capable of succeeding in college because they are not adequately

The purpose of this study was to understand which skills give students a better chance

In this part of the study was reported that the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants. According to this. Two hundred and twenty nine participants agreed to volunteer for this study. The sample was 33.6% male (n = 77) and 66.4% female (n =152). Students enrolled in a course during the spring semesters of 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Our sample academic grade consisted of 20.1% freshman (n = 46), 22.7% sophomore (n = 52), 31.0% junior (n = 71) and 26.2 % senior (n = 60). See Appendix A.

Standardized tests have become the pragmatic form of gauging a child’s intellect, and also have become the major factor in universities accepting applicants. Behind the results of each test lies the ability to mould a child’s future, with test for every occasion whether it is for medical school, an International Baccalaureate entrance exam, college or university admission, there is no escaping such discriminatory tests. These tests are designed to predict a student’s intellect, as well as evaluate the school and its staff based on their students’ academic performance. With constantly changing curriculums, and thousands of papers to be marked across a country, the cost of the standardize test becomes too expensive. The tests are not

There is an evident gap between the materials students receive from each of the courses, where advanced placement students could benefit themselves with at least three extra units to better prepare for the need of knowledge in university, especially in competitive programs in UC. And the surrounding classmates, in a sense of education, are more competitive and capable of developing deeper understandings in that particular course.

This reading was interesting because it looked at the education systems of different countries and compared it to the education system of the United States. The focus was on countries that have better records at improving academic achievement than the United States. It also discussed seven patterns that likely contribute to

Furthermore, the opposition also gave emphasis to the unpreparedness of teachers in regards with the curriculum. Teachers aren’t ready for this kind of curriculum, courses that they will teach is an integration of both college and high school ideas and

Christenson explains that School completion programs require a primary focus on student engagement, particularly on finding ways to enhance students’ interest in and enthusiasm for school, sense of belonging at school, motivation to learn, and progress in school, as well as the value they place on school and learning (Christenson et al., 2001). Having an increase in student enrolments into VET courses begs the question is VET catering to student’s interest and enthusiasm and are traditional school based subjects lacking in interest.

On 4th Apr. 2014, the new curriculum provision was revealed on the press conference. From September in 2014, the new curriculum provision came into effects. According to the newest declaration, there are 8 fields or 13 courses all together in senior high school, including language and literature, mathematics, culture and society, science, technology, arts, physical exercise, and practice. Among the 6 courses from culture and science, instead of covering them all, students

There are only 67 students in the only girls’ vocational college with a staff population of 47 (that has a capacity of more than 500 students). In the current year, while 38 students were posted to the school for JSS 1, only two (5.26%) reported in the school. Similarly, while 74 were posted for SS1, none had reported at the time of this study.