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By Barbara D. Parks-Lee, Phd<\/p>\n

Teaching is a multi-faceted calling for many and an occupation for some, but how can teaching and learning effectiveness be measured without testing?<\/p>\n

There must be some way\u2014or ways\u2014to measure what and whether students are learning, and teachers are teaching. Rigor, high standards, curriculum design, learning and teaching styles, and external demands all must be considered in any teaching and learning situation, regardless of location and resources.<\/p>\n

As the teaching population becomes more monocultural and the school-aged population becomes more multicultural, teaching materials, beliefs, and techniques tend to rely too heavily on standardized tests and testing materials. In order for education to capitalize on the strengths and talents of learners and the skills and professionalism of their teachers, what kinds of additional progress measures might be employed?<\/p>\n

Different kinds of professional development programs and materials may be needed to provide more sufficient and culturally responsive information about the teaching and learning process.<\/p>\n

One way of assessing whether students are actively engaged in learning on a high level might be using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary materials such as those in an original textbook of poems, shorts stories, and essays.<\/p>\n

The book,\u00a0Connections: A Collection of Poems, Short Stories, and Essays with Lessons, <\/em>became part of a study in the Washington, D. C. schools and surrounding Metropolitan areas of Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia, from 1996-2001.\u00a0(Parks-Lee, 1995)<\/em><\/p>\n

It addresses some of the challenges Gloria Ladson-Billings pointed out when she quoted Jonathan Kozol, saying that \u201c\u2026Pedagogic problems in our cities are not chiefly matters of injustice, inequality, or segregation, but of insufficient information about teaching strategies.\u201d(Ladson-Billings*, 1994, p. 128)<\/em><\/p>\n

Both neophyte and experienced teachers participated in a study that provided them with information, materials, and teaching strategies to employ with urban, poor, and predominantly, but not exclusively, African American youth.<\/p>\n

The idea for the study originated with a concern that an increasingly middle class or suburban teaching force often seems unable to meet the needs of diverse students who are different from them in class, socioeconomic status, geography, ethnicity, and\/or culture.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Connections\u00a0<\/em>materials were intended to help address ways to foster a positive impact upon\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>children, but particularly upon children of color. In addition, teachers using these materials might also feel more empowered to think creatively and to utilize students\u2019 strengths and talents as they incorporate high and rigorous interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lessons and higher order thinking skills in order to increase academic achievement.<\/p>\n

Effective teachers believe that we must produce and use materials that encourage students to be able to read, to write, to speak, to be creative, to understand, and to interpret what they hear and read. If students can develop these proficiencies, they may experience greater success on standardized tests.<\/p>\n

Success breeds success, and if our students are to be involved learners and thinkers, we cannot keep doing the same things the same ways and then blaming students and teachers if standardized test scores are not optimal. There must be more inclusive ways of tapping into and measuring what is taught and what is learned. Standardized tests\u00a0are but one way<\/em>and should not be the\u00a0only<\/em>way to validate the teaching and learning processes.<\/p>\n

There are three domains to teaching, the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor. The one that is not easily addressed by standardized testing is the affective domain.<\/p>\n

As Sharon M. Draper says, \u201cYou must reach a child before you can teach a child.\u201d (Draper, S., November 2002). The challenge comes when trying to measure the affective domain. However, affective success is often reflected in student attendance and behaviors that are involved, on-task, and diligent.<\/p>\n

There is often a spirit of collaboration and cooperation between the teacher and the students. Fewer discipline problems are observed when there is a positive classroom community involved.<\/p>\n

When diverse students are allowed to utilize their talents and skills, they often become self-motivated, because they feel affirmed, valued, and respected.<\/p>\n

*Ladson-Billings, G. (1999). (Notes from speech delivered at Howard University).<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in New York Amsterdam News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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