by Zev Percowitz

Created on: July 13, 2008

Test is a four letter word for good reason: it only challenges a temporary result. The testing criteria is very vague, and yet it is suppose to measure a "students'" comprehension levels. What is comprehensive about a test? If I check to see the level of my car's oil content by looking at the dipstick, is it going to absolutely stay that way permanently? When is it written that if my oil is low at the present time that I can not better my position by adding more oil and gainfully improving the former circumstance? Failing a smog test does not mean that I should throw away the car! Is the car a failure just because it did not pass the "test". I completely disagree with the rating process of student criticism called testing!

Students first need to be treated as students not failures who don't know better. If we did not achieve a "C" grade we failed, if we did achieve a "C" grade we failed to get a "B". The failure to achieve an "A", although a good level of achievement, is still failure.

Comprehension is responsible for literacy. Comprehension is based in focus. Focus can not occur if one has family social disruptions which he must resist and yet attend to achieving his best potential. When a persons mind is detracted from his optimum performance capacity it does not mean that he has failed; it means that he has met with circumstances of insignificance. This mindset of insignificance is his only proof during those times that he would be tested.

Literacy is the advancement of mind, body,and personal abilities which can persuasively engage to represent its student. When a person feels connected with himself and his environment he can perform better and subsequently wants to learn. How one learns is more a commentary upon how society cares to take time to correct his passion and self motivation to engage him. If his family does not encourage their kids to become social magnates then they will not conduct their mindset in accordance to the desireous social upgrades which would occur if they believed they could accomplish a more literate rank of self regard. Testing does nothing for self regard, it only questions it with greater conviction. Everyone is illiterate to information in some aspect. Information is a very critical compilation of judgment that needs to be deterred and adjusted for. There are many people whom do not know how to properly assess their issues within this inexact science of data recall.

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