Teachers Lost In Seas Of Numbers
"Is good "teaching" being replaced by our preoccupation with evaluation?"
It is midterm week. There are no classes to attend, just exams to monitor. Nothing portrays the futility of our "education" process more vividly than our obsession with tests and evaluation.
It takes the better part of a week, and sometimes a month, to devise a testing instrument for the midterm. With over 300 tests to check, I take care to design a test that is easy to grade. I try to do this without compromising the validity of the test, although true validity checks are never done where I teach. After submitting the test with accompanying forms to the faculty, all that
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