An interesting article that just popped up hit hard. What about high achieving students? Where are they now in today’s educational environment?
We have heard a lot about the standardized tests that are required throughout the U.S. and their affect on teaching. Debates have been that teachers are teaching to the test and not teaching critical thinking, active learning, how to apply learning to real world problems and learning for understanding. Students are passing the state tests, but not passing ACT, SAT or placement exams for college. They still can’t write or do math.
But now this study suggests that high achieving students in younger ages are not faring as well in school as they advance.
Whoops!
All of our research on learning is pointing to the knowledge that all learners are different in their interest in learning, progress at a different rate of speed, able to acquire and process information differently. You get the picture; students are all different with different needs, abilities, and motivation. So, why are we taking the entire bunch and using Behavioralism techniques that are effective mostly for memorization and give them a test that mainly predicts the changes of them becoming a physicists?
Interesting that NCLB that touts research based learning methods ignores what we know from research on how students learn and is missing those students that will most likely be a scientists, physicists, business, - and the list of exemplary careers goes on.
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