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Ethics in Early Childhood Development
What is your stance on testing and social promotion?
I am in the group that is vigorously opposed to the overuse of and reliance on standardized testing in schools. The No Child Left Behind guidelines, for example, that forced teachers to "teach to the test" (or perhaps lose their jobs or have their schools punished) have been proven to be unfair and unproductive. Moreover teachers that rely on standardized tests are not challenging their students to learn how to solve problems and to think critically; rather, they are just asking students to memorize material so the scores on the tests will make the teachers and schools look good. However, relying on standardized testing is fool's gold rather than real learning. In this case (Maria's children were not passed into 1st grade because they failed a standardized test) it is outrageous for a school to hold kindergarten children back because they didn't score high enough on a standardized test.
In the letter by Jonathan Kozol, he points out that, shamefully, "Thousands of inner-city elementary schools, for instance, have dramatically cut back" teaching science, social studies, the arts and literature; and this has been done so children "…can...
This strategy is robbing young students of the chance to explore subjects that are vital in terms of a child's perception of the world and how he or she fits in. An even more outrageous notion is what they do in some Atlanta schools: taking away playground activities in order to drill students so they pass standardized tests (113).
In the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment (2011) Ideal I-1.6 points out that "assessment information" should be used that is "appropriate for the children to be assessed…and that have the potential to benefit children" (page 2). How does it benefit Maria's children to hold them back in Kindergarten instead of letting them move ahead with their peers to 1st grade? Is there a possibility in this case that the children are not fully bilingual and maybe struggled with the language on the tests? As far back as 1994 scholars were questioning the wisdom of standardized testing. An article in the peer-reviewed journal Applied Measurement in Education references a survey of teachers (in 17 Midwestern elementary schools) who responded to court-ordered "achievement testing" (Moore, 1994). Teachers "…reported finding minimum value in the…
Works Cited
Altshuler, S.J., and Schmautz, T. (2006). No Hispanic Student Left Behind: The
Consequences of "High Stakes" Testing. Children & Schools, 28(1), 5-15.
Kozol, J. High-Stakes Tests and Other Modern Miseries. Chapter Ten. Letter to a Young
Teacher.
There were none with limited English proficiency; those with Non-Limited English Proficiency ranked 50, there were no free or reduced lunch scores, those at non-poverty scored 57-64, while those at Poverty scored 42-46. In a graph showing the Stanford Achievement Test 10th Edition results in Reading for the entire system in Russellville City, Alabama, the males rank 48-60 and females rank49-52, the blacks rank at 29-40, the Hispanic at 16-40,
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