Thursday, January 13, 2011

32 Day Writing Challenge - Day 13

All this week my students have been taking the IOWA test. I've listened to some of the comments they've been making during the short breaks in between different sections and I wrote a tanka about it.

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Standardized testing
is standardized boredom and
standardized bogus.
It's only good for one thing:
getting me out of math class.

2 comments:

twitches said...

I hated TAKS testing days when I was a teacher! As proctors we weren't allowed to do anything but stare at the kids. Tt was as insulting for the adults as it was to the kids. Ugh.

evelyn.n.alfred said...

I wonder if it really measures their intelligence or just how well they know how to take tests.