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Why Education System Fails To Challenge Students At School

Teachers are all at sea: despite a great students' errors, mistakes and drawbacks
deal of effort over the past 20 years, in the study area, rather than to give
academic achievement among high school students reasonable chance of
students continues to lag behind. In demonstrating their achievements of
their attempt to improve school results, specific learning goals.
the educators are trying to find roots of Needless to say, such attitude creates a
poor academic achievement of high school fearful attitude of students towards
students. assessment. They are learning not for
Some point the finger at the outrageous acquiring some knew exciting facts, but
homework loads students are snowed under. for getting a "pass." Education comes to
Supporters of this idea argue that grades rather than knowledge.
students are overburdened with academic 3. Incoherent Assessment Tasks
demands of questionable value and, as a It is deplorable that the everyday
result, end up indifferent to studies, practice of most teachers is to set
exhausted, and worn out. Probably, there numerous, time-consuming and unrelated
is some grain of truth in this claim. tasks that ask for a great deal of work
However, recent investigations have to be done in the shortest time period.
rebutted these suggestions... Consequently, this approach makes
The recent Pew Research Centre poll has students adopt surface approaches to
produced unprecedented results: it's not learning by clutching at facts and
high pressure, but low expectations that memorising them as best as they can in
are bringing the American students down! order to pass.
This claim was corroborated by Denise Things would have changed, if teachers
Clark Pope, a Stanford University built the unrelated assessment tasks into
lecturer who has written about the a coherent whole. This way, students
effects of stress on students. The would be able to work on coherent
research she conducted in comfortable San projects, gain systematic and profound
Francisco Bay Area communities proves knowledge in the subject area. Moreover,
that the reason of poor level of they would be more challenged to do their
knowledge is not the heavy workload own research, show initiative, and be
students are exposed to but the lack of proactive.
challenge in the school environment. 4. Lack of Personal Approach
Thus, it gets straight that the problem With mass classes consisting of more than
of low academic proficiency lies with 20 children, many students feel deprived
what - rather than how much - students of the due attention on their teacher's
are asked to do. And now, the main part. They are placed among the great lot
contributing factors that lead to low of students without their personal
learning proficiency of high school interests, and problems with studying
students are wrong approach to being taken into account.
assessments, incoherent assessment tasks, As a result, students don't feel cared
teachers' and parents' indifference. about, lose their identity, become
Unfortunately, this list is rather indifferent to studies and lose faith in
long... the brighter future. It is a problem of a
1. Incomprehension of the Studying great lot of students.
Purpose 5. Parents' Attitude
The main reason why so many students Unfortunately, a great number of parents
don't feel interested in what they are also contribute to the problem of low
doing at school is the incomprehension of interest in studies. Many of them have a
their studying routine. In fact, a vast "performance orientation," which
majority of teachers are even not emphasises results such as students'
bothered to explain to their students grades, rather than whether they master
what the learning outcomes are, why they the material. On top of that, they are
need to achieve them and how they will be reluctant to weigh-in and help their
assessed. children with home tasks for the fear of
Thus, students read stacks of books, being unable to answer a question and
write hundreds of essays having no idea lose children's respect.
of the initial purpose of all this hassle However, these fears are unjustified.
and bustle. They accomplish their tasks This way parents mislead their confused
by command which needs to be bluntly children, refuse to give them a helping
carried out. Studies become a real must, hand with studies and aggravate the
a dreadful duty, which results in lack of existing problems.
interest, reluctance to study and show Thus, it gets clear that children are
initiative. wrongly aimed at quantity of knowledge
2. Wrong Assessment Approach rather than quality. As Denise Clark Pope
Another contributing factor to the has put it, "There is too much
downward knowledge proficiency is the content-and-coverage stress. It should be
wrong approach of assessment. The matter about challenging and engaging students
is that assessment is often wrongly on multiple levels." And if radical steps
intended by teachers as punishment for aren't taken in the nearest future, the
students, or traps to catch them out. situation is likely to be aggravated.
Grades seem to exist in order to show




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