Reply to Mismatch between assignments and formative grades

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Mismatch between assignments and formative grades"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the tests so hard? I don't remember high school tests being so difficult, and I am not that smart[/quote]

One big reason IMO is open enrollment honors/AP. Kids are taking classes they have no business signing up for because they want to for the grade bump, for their friend group, because it "looks good for college". Then they struggle. My class average is an 86%, but it's skewed way left because a handful of kids have 50s who really should never have registered for my class. Those who do belong are getting As.

[b]My tests now compared to my tests from 20 years ago are night and day. The current ones are half as long, much simpler[/b]. I actually found some old copies cleaning out a filing cabinet yesterday on the work day and was blown away what I used to expect kids to do.[/quote]

I believe it.  But also, what were the homework and/or classwork assignments 20 years ago?  Reading stamina has gone down - it also seems like "work" stamina, such as homework or classwork stamina, has also gone down in students.  Fwiw, when I see the tests that my 9th grader brings home, they seem both very short and also very difficult to me.  Although it's been years and years since I was in 9th grade and maybe I just don't remember.  I know his classwork and homework assignments are pretty minimal but still seem reasonably well done, just less than I remember doing.  And he had virtually no homework at all in middle school or elementary school.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics