{"id":68,"date":"2012-11-14T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-11-14T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:34:25","slug":"cheating-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/2012\/11\/14\/cheating-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See clip:\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=7httv2yXvhM\">Test Teaching Scandal Rocks Atlanta Schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intention of the No Child Left Behind Act was to encourage schools to strive for better education for students by providing a \u00a0measurable\u00a0standard goal. However by\u00a0rewarding schools based on student\u00a0performance on taking the\u00a0standardised\u00a0test is causing teachers and\u00a0principals to cheat the system by creating an illusion that their schools are better than it actually is.<\/p>\n<p>Is the incentive of the system flawed? Yes and no. The intentions are good and the plan can be effective. &#8220;But then humans are thrown into the equation.&#8221; says Jeff in discussing the reward system. I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>Skipping around the rules, taking a short cut, or cheating, just seems like a\u00a0tendency when a reward is dangled in front of us, people. These actions are predictable but can often be neglected when creating a metric system to\u00a0\u00a0evaluate or award\u00a0performances. It is hard to come up with a &#8220;cheat proof&#8221; metric, especially when you have to account for all the possibilities of how people will cheat (we are surprisingly creative when it comes to that), but it is\u00a0essential for a effective metric.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the case of cheating teachers, if it were up to me I might suggest evaluating schools by letting the parents get a say in the evaluation. They might just care more of the actual education than their children or the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Further Reading:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/2011\/07\/11\/teachers-cheating-in-schools\">Caught! Teachers Cheating On Students\u2019 Standardized Tests<\/a>\u00a0by Tom Ashbrook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act\">No Child Left Behind Act<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See clip:\u3000Test Teaching Scandal Rocks Atlanta Schools The intention of the No Child Left Behind Act was to encourage schools to strive for better education for students by providing a \u00a0measurable\u00a0standard goal. However by\u00a0rewarding schools based on student\u00a0performance on taking the\u00a0standardised\u00a0test is causing teachers and\u00a0principals to cheat the system by creating an illusion that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kattylee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}