[etni] Fwd: Re: What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students
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Subject: Re: What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students
It's not the drill that is killing.
The actual proper teaching is needed prior any drill...to my poor mind :-)
Michele wrote:
>Here's the end of the article:
>One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who
incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests
tend to have lower value-added learning gains than those who simply
work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and
mathematics.
>Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, “We spend a lot of
time in this class practicing for the state test,” tended to make
smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.
>“Teaching to the test makes your students do worse on the tests,” Ms.
Phillips said. “It turns out all that ‘drill and kill’ isn’t helpful.”
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