首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain
admin
2013-02-04
45
问题
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of "drop outs": young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: "I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire."
The main idea of this passage is ______.
选项
A、examinations exert a pernicious influence on education
B、examinations are ineffective
C、examinations are profitable for institutions
D、examinations are a burden on students
答案
A
解析
考试对教育产生了有害的影响。文章第一段就点明:考试是测试记忆的好方法,是测试在巨大压力下快速工作的技巧的好方法,却测不出一个人的真正能力和水平。第三段集中指出;考试不是促进学生广泛阅读,反而限制其阅读;考试不能使学生追求更多的知识,而是诱导学生进行应付考试的突击式学习.他们降低了教学水平,因为他们剥夺了老师的一切自由。常常以考试结果而不是所教课程来评定老师,是他们不得不以他们所轻视的考试技巧来培训学生。第二段和第四段也涉及其后果。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/VUUYFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
BodySystemsAbodysystemreferstoagroupoforgans,whicharepartsofthebodythatdoaspecialjob,suchastheheart,
BodySystemsAbodysystemreferstoagroupoforgans,whicharepartsofthebodythatdoaspecialjob,suchastheheart,
CommunitycourtsandcommunityjusticeprevailedinEnglandatthetimeoftheNormanConquest(1066).Thelegalsystemwasritu
Afullmoonwasshiningdownonthejungle.AccompaniedonlybyanIndianguide,theAmericanexplorerandarchaeologistEdward
"Toerrishuman,toforgive,divine","Alittlelearningisadangerousthing"aretakenfromthepoemswrittenby______.
ManyAmericans-perhapsmostofthem-aren’treadyforPresidentBush’s"ownershipsociety".Theideasoundsgood.Employeescould
MakeThataDoubleAfewyearsago,itdawnedonZachThomasthatcoffeedidn’thaveenoughcaffeine.Atthetime,hewaspu
Humanvisionlikethatofotherprimateshasevolvedinanarborealenvironment.Inthedensecomplexworldofatropicalforest
随机试题
在垄断竞争厂商处于长期均衡时,下列说法正确的是()
A.血尿B.低血压C.骨髓抑制D.白细胞升高E.应激性溃疡
患者,男性,58岁,耳聋10余年,耳中如蝉鸣,伴五心烦热,遗精盗汗,舌红少津,脉细数,宜在太溪、照海、听宫的基础上,加取()
根据政府、企业采购需要或项目实施进度要求制定项目招标采购计划,明确招标采购()。
S公司股票的看跌期权执行价格为35元,其价格为每股2元,而另一看涨期权执行价格亦为35元,价格为每股3.50元,作为看跌期权卖家的每股最大亏损是——元,而作为看涨期权卖家的每股盈利最多是______元。()
因公司减少股本可能导致投资者及其一致行动人成为公司第一大股东或者实际控制人的,该投资者及其一致行动人应当自公司董事会公告有关减少公司股本决议之日起()个工作日内,披露投资者及其一致行动人的控股股东、实际控制人及其股权控制关系结构图。
在人格研究中,从大量相关变量中抽取最基本的维度或因素加以分析的统计方式称为()。
据调查,30年来有1000位高考状元,在以后的发展过程中都没有成为商界、政界乃至科研方面的顶级人才,你是怎么看的?
已知二次型f(x1,x2,x3)=xTAx在正交变换x=Qy下的标准形为y12+y22,且Q的第3列为证明A+E为正定矩阵,其中E为3阶单位矩阵.
DictationListentothepassage.Forquestions21—25,fillintheblankswiththeexactwordsorphrasesyouhear.Itwasinthe
最新回复
(
0
)