If We Teach to the Test

If standardized tests determine how we teach, then students would probably:

• Never raise their hand; after all they will prove their knowledge on the test.
• Never explore around the topic, twisting it, turning it on its head and perhaps coming up with new questions.
• Never ask different questions than what the teacher expects.
• Not participate in discussion after one answer has been given since usually only answer is enough on a test.
• Always be very, very quiet because to take a test there must be silence.
• Always be cordoned off by privacy folders fore they must not cheat off each other.
• Always know exactly where they rank and whether school is for them or not.
• Realize that thinking creatively will hardly ever pay off.
• Always ask what their grade and rank is and then flaunt it whenever they can since this is what a test-obsessed society deems important.
• Be very god at filling out little bubbles inside the lines, making their mark and heavy, as well as erasing mistakes completely.
• Never attempt to place an answer outside of a designated area.  After all, thoughts only get so much room to be explored.
• Not really need a teacher, perhaps a scantron would be just fine.