Saturday, April 5, 2014

SOLs don't gauge deep thinking, creativity

IMAGINE, as a kind of odious thought experiment, that your job involved an endless series of competency tests. All too frequently, you'd show up at work, maybe grab a quick cup of coffee and then head into some uncomfortable and airless room where your boss would quiz you on how well you knew your job. It wouldn't be a hands-on type of test either, just multiple-choice items. Some of the questions would be sort of vague and poorly worded, but here's the thing: You had better correctly choose most of the right answers if you expect to make progress in your career. If you didn't meet some arbitrary score and were therefore not deemed suitably "proficient," you could expect to be drilled for the next few weeks on those things you'd answered incorrectly. And this unappealing vista would stretch before you, interminably: Memorize some new stuff, be tested on it, memorize, test, memorize, test. Would you be eager to arrive at such a workplace each Monday morning? Would this soul-crushing paradigm spark your creativity or encourage you to think outside of any boxes? Would it make learning new things fun? Would there be an iota of playfulness in the whole dreadful scheme? Or would you be too demoralized--maybe even terrified--to seek any genuine satisfaction from your job and instead just listlessly try to memorize a sufficient number of things to be kept on?...



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