Have you got research that supports National Standards?
Please if you have some research that will back this then link me to it so I can consider it.
Have been looking for weeks now and I am still to find something that convinces me that my gut feelings and opinions and research from many, many people are wrong and national Standards are a good thing for our precious children.
"http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223
'Professor John Hattie, who has won international recognition for his work on student achievement, says the Government's new standards regime looks like a backwards step. Hattie's 15-year study on assessment, published last year, was described as education's "Holy Grail" in the authoritative Times Educational Supplement in Britain and was praised by Anne Tolley. But he has condemned the planned changes as "going back 50 years" and expressed concern that they will force teachers to teach children according to their school year, rather than their ability level.
This process - which teachers commonly call "teaching to the test" - emphasises the importance of ranking achievement and, say teachers, threatens to destroy one of the great strengths of the New Zealand education system, which is teaching children according to their abilities. The Government may take the view that if learning is not being assessed and quantified it is not occurring, but anyone who has found in a teacher a lifelong source of inspiration knows better.'
Have been looking for weeks now and I am still to find something that convinces me that my gut feelings and opinions and research from many, many people are wrong and national Standards are a good thing for our precious children.
"http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10605223
'Professor John Hattie, who has won international recognition for his work on student achievement, says the Government's new standards regime looks like a backwards step. Hattie's 15-year study on assessment, published last year, was described as education's "Holy Grail" in the authoritative Times Educational Supplement in Britain and was praised by Anne Tolley. But he has condemned the planned changes as "going back 50 years" and expressed concern that they will force teachers to teach children according to their school year, rather than their ability level.
This process - which teachers commonly call "teaching to the test" - emphasises the importance of ranking achievement and, say teachers, threatens to destroy one of the great strengths of the New Zealand education system, which is teaching children according to their abilities. The Government may take the view that if learning is not being assessed and quantified it is not occurring, but anyone who has found in a teacher a lifelong source of inspiration knows better.'
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