Education in a Wrestling Match with Standardization

Nadres, Ramon (2022) Education in a Wrestling Match with Standardization. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transformative Ideas in A Changing World-The Global Solidarity Crisis, 1. pp. 120-132. ISSN 2987-2596

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Abstract

Standardized tests have become the gold standard for determining the success of the educational process, which translates to this: if you pass the test, you are considered to have succeeded both in your education and in life itself. But a plethora of articles, books, TEDtalks and YouTube videos tell us that that assumption is riddled with holes. Standardized tests are suspected of: (1) being discriminatory in its allowing students to pass on to higher levels of education or have become road blocks to permitting the students to where they want to go and where they might be of greater use to society; (2) straightjacketing the educational process through a restrictive curriculum designed to cater to the standardized test. With just these two objections we already see how standardized testing goes against the very goals proposed by UNESCO for Education in the 21st Century, which includes creativity, implying that the products of the educational system have to be people who can think outside the box. But standardization is a box. This paper proposes the hurdling of the standardization blockades by: (1) diversifying the way that the success of the educational process is determined, i.e., offering alternative and not depending largely on standardized tests; (2) designing the assessment of educational success by returning to the original aims of education; (3) creating an open system of education as suggested by Thomas, which will actually lead the entire educational system away from its dependence on standardized tests. Keywords: Education, Standardization, Globalization, Testing

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Philosophy
Divisions:	Proceeding > Faculty of Philosophy
Depositing User:	Kristoforus Sri Ratulayn Kino Nara
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2023 13:53
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 13:53
URI:	http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/36268

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