Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
And if the teachers don't "do as they are told", the principal can sack them now?
It's completely broken.
A potential solution, I suppose, would be to use a test for which it is not possible to prepare, but which reflects the student's level of over-all academic achievement. I think some of the tests designed by psychometricians are like this. One could also specifically prohibit test preparation, although that would be hard to enforce because the boundary between educating a class of students in skills that happen to be on the test, and giving test preparation, is not easy to demarcate. Other options that might help are: making the tests broad enough to cover the entire curriculum, or specifying their content only in general terms so that it's hard to do specific preparation.