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This-essay is a7604281.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TESTING 760428 The educational effect of testing depends greatly upon the educator's purpose and attitude in testing and upon the nature of their personal relations with the students being tested. Questions of testing design/technology are important within the context of purpose, attitude, and personal relations. Some educators have a very elitist/exclusive attitude and tend to be indifferent to personal relationships with students. Often, the purpose of testing for them is to sort students into achievers and failures. Due to their attitude toward students--- failure for most students is equated with success for the educator; the good teacher gives high grades to few students. The purpose of testing is to prove how little the students have learned, to catch them at not having learned assigned material. Professor- student relationships thus tend to be adversarial relationships. Some educators have friendly relationships with students. They see themselves as partners in a process of mutual education---offering themselves to the process of growth through change, sometimes radical change. Testing for them is a part of the process of setting objectives and determining whether or not the objectives have been attained. Testing is an integral part of priority setting within the total learning process. Testing is designed so that it helps provide healthy motivation to learn in ways appropriate to the mutually articulated educational priorities. Testing involves mutual evaluation of progress toward mutually selected objectives and/or living in mutually agreeable ways. Testing is then not the objective manifestation of an adversary relationship. It is rather an integral part of a friendly cooperative venture. When testing must be objective---those involved in the testing tend to get treated objectively, like objects. When testing need not be objective---non-violent objective testing is possible. The freedom to be subjective in testing is important---and makes possible humane testing. That freedom is part of a larger whole--- which can not be legislated or guaranteed by any system of policies. Unilateral testing is not seen as acceptable in such a larger whole, because it tends to be violent testing. Unilateral testing tends to undermine the possibility of friendships between the subject in control- --and the object of the testing. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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