You Need to Measure Learning

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

And it stresses them out, that it gives them test anxiety.

But really, all this does is it leaves kids unprepared.

And being unprepared, that is stressful.

That induces anxiety.

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 wanna go do things, grasp opportunities and you can’t ‘cause 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.

This teaser is distilled from the following post, if you want to dive deeper: Accountability and Incentives are Necessary but Absent in Education .

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