CMT+QUESTIONS!!!

You can listen to their first podcast here: http://gingerl.podomatic.com/entry/2008-03-12T05_49_54-07_00

Be very complete when answering the questions....man, many people will be listening to this one. It will not be like others we did. She is advertising this to a big audience. Make sure your answers are detailed. I also left in the middle of writing the questions so add add add stuff you think of. I am at the nurse's now...sorry for mistakes.

Create a new page on your homepage and answer the following questions:

Write down you first reaction to the CMTs:

1) My first reaction when i hear the words CMt are oh no!

What was on the test that was unfamiliar?

2) Nothing on the test was really unfamiliar. Everything we went over in class was on the CMT.

Do you believe that a child's intelligence and skills can be measured by standardized tests?

3) No, i dont believe a childs intelligence and skills can be measured on just the CMT's because the CMT's only measures the stuff we learn in school. Its not your over all intelligence.

Is it a fair way of classifying/grading all children?

4) I think we are all being treated equally when it comes to the CMT's. Some may do better than others but that doesnt mean it was unfair. We all did the same thing, we all took the same test.

Does it have a positive impact on your education?

5) I dont think it has an impact on our education, it tests it. It has nothing to do with what we learn or dont learn.

Does it accurately measure what you learned?

6) I do think it measures what we learned. If it wasnt for the CMT's or any test for that matter, we would never know if we were learning anything.

If you were to design a test to accurately measure a students knowledge...what would be on it, what type of questions, subjects, how many days,etc.. Be very, very complete here.

7) If i were to create my own Connecticut Mastery Test i would have the same type of questions that we did this year. I wouldnt change the questions because i thought that they were ok. But i would, however, make the booklets shorter, which would mean we had less time and i wouldnt make it a two week period. I think that a couple days, a week at the most, would be enough to complete the test's. I also think that we only need two subjects to be tested on. Those would be math and L.A. I dont think science is important enough to take a CMT on and neither is social studies.