Saturday, December 4, 2010

Testing and System Dynamics

As long as the public school standardized tests don’t include questions that test for System Dynamics knowledge and only test for ability to calculate, then we don’t stand a chance of making changes to how things are taught. Unfortunately, I think we need someone who can attack the standardized math testing in a way to discredit it.
 
We need to create a gap between the testing of calculating skills and testing for SD skills. Associate testing of calculating skills with cockroaches or bedbugs and people will want to get rid of them. Associate the testing of SD skills with success, leadership, solving real problems, making lots of money, getting a job and people will want to include them on the standardized tests.

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