One and Done

While looking for information on my topic I ran across something interesting something that says that students today when they take the test they indicate that the student might do good on the test but when it comes to applying the knowledge to something they can’t do it. Example, a student might take a writing test and do alright but in essays they write for something like for a scholarship it would not be acceptable. It says that the teacher is only going over what is tested in this situation and the student is just doing good enough to get a decent grade on the test and what they learned isn’t really sticking to them. The person who wrote it suggest that in today’s schools we don’t just go over basic knowledge and that they focus on things that can be applied to something else. Also they say another problem is that the testing done by the state is a one shot thing where one test is not an accurate measurement of a students ability in that area. I would agree but I wouldn’t like taking multiple tests on the same thing. Maybe in the future this problem can be corrected.