Additionally, educators are complaining that the students are less prepared for college since their education has become so focused on preparation for the test.
In terms of preparation for the Tests Woodward probably relied too much on the training field and not enough on match performance.
Puffett's preparation for the tests, which included weeks playing 'Bop It', a children's reflex game, and Tetris, to get his reaction speeds up, paid off.
maintains that the Michigan test is flawed because students in poor schools rarely receive the same amount of preparation for the tests as students from wealthier districts and private schools.
But how do you take kids out of the classroom, out of the building for three hours, and sacrifice their all important E.L.A. [English/Language Arts] preparation for the test?
But if literature has no place in these tests, and if preparation for the tests becomes the sole goal of education, then the reading of literature will go out of fashion in our schools.
In her letter, Fariña urged principals to resist the temptation to seek better test scores through excessive test prep: "As educators, most of us know that the best preparation for the test is a rich, thoughtful, engaging curriculum that awakens curiosity in students, inspires them to ask questions, helps them explore complex problems, and encourages them to imagine possibilities," she wrote.
Philip Wayne, headteacher of Chesham grammar school and chairman of the Buckinghamshire grammar schools, says: "We do believe the best preparation for the tests is to develop a child's ability to read with understanding and to solve problems using their numerical skills: this is what primary schools are doing with their children.
However, the quality as well as the duration of the preparation for the test differs from one candidate to another.
