FOR TOM

SAT scores and my own rant

In the last week or so, I read in the news that the College Board screwed on the scores on thousands of SAT scores.

First of all, given the state of today's technology, I don't understand how that could happen!

But more importantly, what kind of message does this send to the students who took the test? That the grown ups can't even figure out how to score it correctly, is an understatement.

Personally, I am against these types of tests anyway. Tom tends to have low scores on various standardised tests, and yet has very good grades and a great relationship with his teachers and other students. How do you test for things like leadership and good attitude, which in my opinion are far more important to succeed in today's society and high math scores.

He also does really well in things like video production and multimedia, which don't come into any kind of evaluation on SAT's.

We tend to try to put kids into a "box" to standardize them and catagorize, instead of evaluating each on his or her special individual merits, attitudes, and abilities.

I am all for totally abolishing all the standardized tests, including the SAT's.

posted by magdarem @ 9:38 AM