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Sunday, June 17, 2012

This Art Teacher Knows What to Do with Bubble Tests « Diane Ravitch's blog

This Art Teacher Knows What to Do with Bubble Tests « Diane Ravitch's blog:


An Art Teacher Knows What to Do with Bubble Tests

I have a visceral distaste for the very idea of measuring the arts with a standardized multiple-choice test.
This strikes me the sort of technocratic thinking that is driving creativity and ingenuity underground and crushing it whenever it dares to appear in a schoolroom.
We know that the only reason this idea is being considered is in order to generate enough data to evaluate teachers of the arts.
Imagine: Asking students in the band to answer bubble questions about composers or music.
Or asking students in a sculpture class to name this artist.
What’s the point? We want students to have cultural literacy but these kinds of learnings belong in the study of