Posts by Max Call
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Hmmm...
this reminds of that ad that used to be on TV later at night.
It shows 'respectable' business man ringing the wife and family from his hotel room while away on business. The ad ends with the camera widening the shot to show a very young girl of Asian ethnicity standing next to his bed looking upset.
it creeps me out every time I see it even though I have seen it many times. (I actually still physically shudder and feel nauseous) -
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why were there no reserve days??a cricket match has always been a good way to break a drought here in Hawkes Bay!
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"Wouldn't that also provide a useful tool for schools to extract the needed resources from the Ministry?"
schools do 'extract the needed resources' already - the main limit is size of resource pool.
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"So what is to stop the information currently collected from being used at a national level to inform better provision of assistance to kids who need it? "
nothing... except the provision of resources required (time, money and skills). Which was part of my point.
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yes - student directed learning is much easier to set(for the teacher) in junior classes than NCEA level classes.
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I wonder if in a perverse way, despite not paying at high school, the breaking knowledge into discrete acquirable chunks has also lead to commodification.
Interesting point.
Many students now do not aim to pass "English' or 'History' (for example) they look at each AS, weigh up how many credits they need in literacy or numeracy,the number of credits they need to pass the Level and then decide if they are going to attempt the standard based on this.
What is the point of working your butt off if you have already enough literacy credits and you are earning heaps of credits towards your level certificate by doing 30+ US in Info Management?
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I agree with your comments regarding students expecting to be 'spoon-fed' - it drives me nuts.
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do you have children in primary level education?
I am only asking as it seems that you are unaware that children in primary school are already assessed on literacy and numeracy very regularly and that this information is also passed on to their parents/caregivers.
I think what most people are arguing is that another test will not provide any more information than what we already have. However, it will tie up many resources (time, money, skill) finding out what we already know. These resources could be more effectively used to address the students further development in literacy and numeracy (than what they already receive). Eg - employ more teachers/teacher aides so that struggling students receive more one-on-one tutoring (I am sure that there are also many other strategies).
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(Note to above)
This becomes increasingly evident by Year 13 as the students learn the 'system'
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Thanks for that link Lyndon.
A lot of good points were raised.
Also to add to that -
some teachers I know are concerned that certain subjects are falling in popularity because (for example) they might offer 24 AS credits that take a lot of hard work to get a pass grade (A, M or E). Other subjects offer over 30 US credits that the kids can do almost standing on their head.
The students know this and MANY choose their subjects accordingly.