Sobre evaluación en educación ▸ On Evaluation in Education

Algunas citas pertinentes / Some pertinent quotes

» Hemos alcanzado un punto en nuestra evolución humana caracterizado por el hecho de que sabemos mucho, pero comprendemos poco. Manfred Max-Neef

» ¿Dónde está la sabiduría que perdimos al adquirir conocimientos? ¿Dónde el conocimiento perdido frente a tanta información?. T. S. Eliot.

» Siempre que enseñes, enseña a la vez a dudar de lo que enseñes.  José Ortega y Gasset

» Hacer preguntas es prueba de que se piensa. Rabindranath Tagore

» La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. Jorge Luis Borges

» Las actitudes son más importantes que las aptitudes. Sir Winston Churchill

» De la cuna a la tumba es una escuela; por eso lo que llaman problemas, son lecciones. Facundo Cabral

» Odio que me enseñen, pero me encanta aprender. Winston Churchill

» Reprobar es sinónimo de expulsar, negar, excluir…la negación de la enseñanza. Freinet

» La educación es algo admirable. Sin embargo, es bueno recordar, que nada que valga la pena se puede enseñar. Óscar Wilde

» En los exámenes, los tontos siempre preguntan cosas que los sabios no pueden responder. Óscar Wilde

» La motivación intrínseca (un interés en la tarea por su propia satisfacción) es cualitativamente diferente de la motivación extrínseca (en la cual el cumplimiento de la tarea es visto sobre todo como un pre-requisito para obtener algo más). Alfie Kohn

» La vejez empieza cuando se pierde la curiosidad.  José Saramago

» Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. Diane Ravitch

» The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch

» Our schools will not improve if we value only what tests measure. The tests we have now provide useful information about students' progress in reading and mathematics, but they cannot measure what matters most in education....What is tested may ultimately be less important that what is untested. Diane Ravitch

» What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached "proficiency." This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements. Diane Ravitch

» Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Thomas Dewar

» The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.John Holt

»My fear is that "more measurements, better data management and top-down management" will not fix American education.  Pasi Sahlberg

» When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores. Alfie Kohn

» In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.  Alfie Kohn

» Rewards motivate people to work for rewards. Alfie Kohn

»  Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.  Stephen R. Covey

» Education should not be the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats