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conulyShe homeschools! She doesn't like the idea of tests and homework! She must be stupid!
I love the assumptions:
There's no way to judge how much a student learned unless you give tests and homework. Well, yeah, I guess they could check class participation and classwork - but how could there possibly be enough time??? Because all my classes, which ran on the "tests and homework" idea, were lecture-based, so this class must ALSO be large and lecture based, and there wouldn't be enough time to do classwork. I've never heard of class discussions, or labwork before!
And:
She withdrew her kids over this! She must not want them to learn! This must make her a bible-thumping fundie!
Aside from the obvious WTF prejudice, I have this to say: Of course, you can't learn unless you have homework and tests! This, despite the studies saying that homework and tests can be detrimental to actual learning. Seriously, think back: which did you learn better, the subject you didn't stress out over but instead liked, or the subject which had lots of tests, which you crammed for? Even if you disagree, which is fair, do you *really* think that there's no other way to learn than by lectures, homework, and tests?
I love the assumptions:
There's no way to judge how much a student learned unless you give tests and homework. Well, yeah, I guess they could check class participation and classwork - but how could there possibly be enough time??? Because all my classes, which ran on the "tests and homework" idea, were lecture-based, so this class must ALSO be large and lecture based, and there wouldn't be enough time to do classwork. I've never heard of class discussions, or labwork before!
And:
She withdrew her kids over this! She must not want them to learn! This must make her a bible-thumping fundie!
Aside from the obvious WTF prejudice, I have this to say: Of course, you can't learn unless you have homework and tests! This, despite the studies saying that homework and tests can be detrimental to actual learning. Seriously, think back: which did you learn better, the subject you didn't stress out over but instead liked, or the subject which had lots of tests, which you crammed for? Even if you disagree, which is fair, do you *really* think that there's no other way to learn than by lectures, homework, and tests?
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Date: 2004-09-09 09:36 pm (UTC)Math? Oh Dell's Math Puzzles and Logic Problems! Horses? Forget my college degree...buy me books and magazines and let me loose with a few horses! P.E.? Let me out there (haha my high school mentality at work) with a bunch of guys I have crushes on, playing games I like but probably am no good at but having fun and trying to show off anyway! Mistory and geography? I HATED them in school and struggled horribly. My geography has been improved with interest in world horse breeds and where my internet friends live. I also LOVE backroad driving and studying maps. My interest in history is on ancient world cultures, how they developed, what their lives were most probably like, and how they interacted. Ancient myths with factual bases (Troy, Biblical stories IMO)...fascinating!
Force me to do it, and I'll hate it. Give me something interesting to investigate on my own without obligations, and I soak it up like a sponge.
Scary, how you surface a point that I've known all along with myself but never really questioned or outright expressed.