A popular topic in parent Yahoo groups these days is whether students should be able to bring home corrected tests. This policy would provide an opportunity for students to study more effectively for future tests, and help them understand the material better, but teachers are often reluctant to allow these tests to go home. An excerpt from a Washington Post article by Jay Mathews, gives some great reasons to allow students to take a second look.
To read the entire article, follow this link: Why do Schools Refuse to Send Home Exams?
Why do schools refuse to send exams home?
Some education issues never appear in political debates, op-ed pages or blue-ribbon commission reports. That doesn’t make them any less irritating. Take, for instance, the widespread reluctance to let students take exams home after they are marked and graded.
My recent column about a Montgomery County father who was denied a chance to see his son’s tests so he could help the boy improve brought a surge of e-mails and blog comments, as happens every time I mention this mostly ignored but frequent parental complaint.
“Any test deserves a critique, otherwise how is the student to learn from his or her mistakes or, even better, build on their strengths,” said Terry Davies, a father and grandfather in Leesburg. “How many times have I heard a teacher say that the biggest problem in education today is not the quality of the teaching but the quality of the parenting. Now here a quality parent is stonewalled in an attempt to aid his struggling students.”
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