Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade | Intellectual Takeout
"...recently displayed in a Washington Post article penned by Julie Scagill.
As Scagill explains, the
testing retake syndrome is not limited to large, make-it-or-break it tests; instead, it is
infiltrating almost every quiz that students sit for in hopes that students will better learn their lessons:
“Proponents of retakes believe they allow students who
struggle with test-taking another chance to master the material, and say retakes help with overall retention.
Others point out that just because it takes some students longer to grasp a concept, it
doesn’t mean they are less intelligent...
...worries are reminiscent of a passage from Frederick Exley’s 1968 work, A Fan’s Notes.
The work, although fictional, is drawn from Exley’s life experiences, one of which includes
his time as a teacher in New York.
...“I one day came across a high-toned and vague clause (very much like a paragraph in any education textbook) calling on teachers to pass with the grade of C any student who was
‘working to capacity’ – a capacity one could, I guessed immediately, determine from the IQ records in the guidance office. …
‘What the clause means,’ one young and spirited teacher said finally, winking outrageously, ‘is that everybody, but everybody, daddy, passes.’
That outrageous wink answered everything..."
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