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Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)
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Sun, 7 May 2000 20:26:24 GMT
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I'm snipping here and there...
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> (I'd say you got your money's worth from your MS Ed degree. :-) )
I wish the market would verify that.
> score and all it proves is that I am good at taking tests, can do math • problems
> quickly, and have a large vocabulary.
This last attribute is under-understood and under-emphasized in my opinion. I
think the single most important thing that parents can do for their childrens'
academic future is be sure that they are exposed early and often to a huge
vocabulary. Aside from giving them lots of known words, it gets them in the
habit of being exposed to things they don't know and asking or looking up the
answers. That is tremendously important. I see people all the time let words,
concepts, explanations, etc. slide in and out of their brain without
understanding them and without questioning. Vocabulary exposure, I believe,
also creates a broader context in which people can incorporate new ideas. You
can think about more concepts if you have more words with which to describe
your thoughts.
> To properly evaluate a prospective
> freshman you need to look at tests, grades, AND extracurricular activities.
And extracurriculars are not just school-affliated activities. My only
school-related extracurricular was chess club, but I worked, read widely,
computed, etc., all of which were valuable to my college experience.
> Montessori is aces in my book, both my children benefitted greatly from it and
> I really feel we got our money's worth.
Good. I haven't found anyone who's been disappointed by the method. My son's
current school goes through 3rd grade, but there's another local school,
Princeton Montessori, that goes through sixth or eighth which we may
investigate in a couple years.
Chris
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| (...) Ditto. Of course, the trouble with having exams etc come easy (relatively), is that at some point one reaches a subject or chunk of knowledge which requires you to WORK to understand it... andfor me at least, I'd never learned to. Took me (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) and (...) Maybe it's just a gut feeling we had, but we only went from 3.5 years to just before Kindergarten started in both cases. I think the value of Montessori lessens as the child ages, we saw it more as a booster to give our kids a (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Whew. That was a long post. Thoroughly enjoyable reading, it's always a joy to see a well written refutation that skewers something point by point. You have more patience than I do, I never could have stuck with that tripe all the way to the (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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