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Thursday, December 23, 2010

On Test Taking

"Tests represent fear-based learning, the opposite of learning based on desire. To compensate for my no-testing policy, I assign tons of homework...For 25 years of testing the waters by not testing, I've been telling my students not to worry about answering questions. Be braver and bolder: Question the answers."

Teach to the Test? What Test?
by Colman McCarthy
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2006no_tests

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