Thank You!!

Anonymous
"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."

Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."

Truly, this has been a great journey in this course! I have learned so much about this course and classmates. I am really grateful for all the feedback I received during this coursework. I have grown over this course period and gain a better understanding of child development. Again, thankyou classmates.

Intelligence Testing?

As I can remember I was always a bright student. Learning new material inside a classroom was like a walk in a park for me. I enjoy the challenges school brought. Taking test and assesments were never a big task for me. I knew of many people that would pass the class but fail the test. Many people are not test takers, because they expect so much out of them. There many times in my life when I felt relax at taking test. But, when the particular time in my life to pass the  Praxis 1 exam to become a teacher; I could not do it. I always came to close but fail. I broke down and cried, because I did not understand what was going on. I knew the material that was on the test, but just could not comprhend what was going on. Many of my professors told me, the reason was mainly because the materials were cover in high school. So I took a step back and recover my steps and study the old materials.

National testing of elementary and secondary students exists in most industrialized countries. Each country's national examinations are based on national curricula and content standards. The difference in weight and consequence of the exams varies tremendously from country to country, as does the use of exams at various levels of education. In France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan, examinations at the lower secondary or elementary level are required for admission to academic secondary schools. In the United States, there is a more informal system of tracking students into academic, vocational, or general studies within the same secondary school. In Japan and Korea secondary students take nationally administered examinations that determine their postsecondary placement. Topscoring students attend the most prestigious public universities. In France the baccalaureate examinations are given to students at academic secondary schools (the lycée) as exit examinations and also to determine university placement. In Germany a similar distinction is made between academic and vocational secondary school, and passing the Abitur (exit examination from Gymnasium or academic secondary school) allows students to continue on to university-level coursework. In Great Britain students study for their A-level examinations for university placement. Finally, in Italy students must pass exit examinations at both the lower-and upper-secondary levels. At the secondary level, the Esami di maturita impacts university attendance or employment.

For further reading about standard testing in Japan http://jalt.org/test/edw_1.htm

As educators, there are so many ways we learn how to assess children. Everyday I learn new ways to examine children and abilites.