The Standford Assessment Test or SAT-10 as it is referred to locally will be in two weeks. We have been preparing since the beginning of the school year, but as we get closer to the event we tend to be a bit anxious to make sure we have prepared everyone sufficiently.
As I have reviewed the practice test, worked with the format and teaching how to listen better, how to read key words and other testing strategies I cannot help but feel that we are really preparing students for an educational life of standardized testing. Since we are starting now in Kindergarten these students will continue to be tested through each grade, their ACT, GRE, etc., etc. is this good? Will we actually be able to reduce testing anxiety? Will the continuous testing just become a natural part of education and become so much a part of the school year that it will loose this anxiety facing us?
I can only hope.
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