You Need to Measure Learning

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A lot of people think that measuring kids’ learning in school is bad for them. That it stresses them out.

But really, if you don’t measure learning, it’s worse. It leaves kids unprepared. And being unprepared, that is way more stressful.

Maybe not in the moment, when there’s no pressure on you.

But in the future, when you’re in situations that need those skills, or you want to go do things and grasp opportunities and you can’t because you don’t have the foundational skill base.

That’s a million times worse.

And if you don’t measure learning, you don’t know what kids know and don’t know.

You can’t tell if your teaching methods even work!

And if nobody knows what works, then there’s no pressure to improve what doesn’t.

You can’t improve a system that refuses to measure its results.

Further reading: Accountability and Incentives are Necessary but Absent in Education .

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