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                       %EDUCATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS 730919

     Traditional  educational assessment tends to pit  the
students'  wits against the professor---in a game to get a
maximum  number of points on evaluation items which can be
"tested"  in the traditional way.  This-situation tends to
focus  the the students'  attention on learning only those
things  which  can  be "tested"  in the  traditional  way.
Students  are  implicitly encouraged to accept  the  value
judgments of  the instructor with  respect  to:   personal
background  and  style  of  attention by the student;  and

irrespective of  individual differences  between  students
with  respect  to personal background,  style of learning,
perspectives on life, expected future relevancies, etc. In
the  end  the student tends to degenerate into  trying  to
out-guess the instructor as to what questions will  be  on
the  final  exam.   Some  authors and  publishers  find it
profitable to  aid  students  in  this  guessing  game  by
publishing  handbooks  on how to pass standardized  tests.
What do students really learn in the end?

     The traditional testing method tends to focus concern
on what the student may not have learned.   If the student
can   be  caught  not  having  mastered  certain  response
patterns,   then  he/she  is judged to have failed in  the
educational venture.

     It  might  be worth considering the possibilities  of
developing  educational assessment which would  focus  the
attention  of  both  the  student and  the  instructor  on
students' positive accomplishments.  This might be done by
asking the student  to  make  declarations of competencies
which  are  valued  by the  student---in  light  of  goals
accepted  jointly  by  the student and instructor  at  the
beginning  of a  course  as  appropriate to  the student's
needs. The instructor's role would then be to determine to
what  extent  the  declaration  of the  student  regarding
positive accomplishments is  an  accurate declaration.  In
this way the student would  be given positive, rather than
negative motivational perspectives, and the whole learning
process might be facilitated rather than debilitated as it
is by traditional testing methods.

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