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Bill: Education (Testing) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2512
Description[?]:
| An act to introduce standardised testing into schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:35:11, January 04, 2008 CET |
From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | How else do we ensure that all students are tested by the same metric across the nation, and ensure all students are getting an equal and adequate education? Practical testing cannot be done in the sciences or commerce, or in any such academic areas - it is only available for subjects like automotive engineering, electrical engineering and such, simple, manual labour jobs. We do not want our next generation to end up being educated to that end only, or we will never have world-class academics in this nation. |
| Date | 14:12:53, January 04, 2008 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | That is why we have these things called tests that are given throughout the school year JUP! Standardized Tests are nothing but to see if you can actually take a test and they do not test on everything. They only test on Math, Reading, and Writing.That's it. I call it the poor man's version of the PRAXIS exams. |
| Date | 23:05:46, January 04, 2008 CET |
From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | That's not true. Standardised tests just means that there is a clear standard against which all tests in the nation are marked against, rather than leaving testing up to individual schools. In this way, we can be sure that all students in the nation are assessed similarly, rather than different schools teaching and testing different material, and providing different and incomparable results.
There is no limit to what may be tested by such tests, and while maths, reading and writing naturally lend themselves to such tests, so do economics, accounting, physics etc. |
| Date | 00:29:09, January 05, 2008 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | Standardized testing means absolutely nothing to the real world at all. All it is, and I shall repeat it since it is obvious you failed school, is to see if you can pass a damn examination. That's it. period. Also, since you obviously missed that day in class, not every school works at the same pace so how the hell are you going to compare test scores when not all schools teach what is on the damn tests? |
| Date | 01:22:09, January 05, 2008 CET |
From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | Actually, every school should teach what is on the national curriculum. It is the only way we can ensure that all students, regardless of which school they go to, get the same education. The examination tests whether a student knows the material they have been taught. Perhaps if you had come from a place with an adequate public education system, you'd know this. |
| Date | 05:14:05, January 05, 2008 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | "Actually, every school should teach what is on the national curriculum"
There is no national curriculum and SATs mean jack in real life. |
| Date | 21:13:30, January 05, 2008 CET |
From | Monacelli Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | There is a national curriculum? Is this assumed or can this be found somewhere? (not asking in a dick-way. we'd really like to know). |
| Date | 22:10:18, January 05, 2008 CET |
From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | That'd be an assumption, but we couldn't see how there could realistically be a comprehensive system of state run schools without a national curriculum. If there were a system of standardised tests instituted, there would certainly need to be one, whether or not there exists one now. |
| Date | 16:28:17, January 06, 2008 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Education (Testing) Amendment Act | | Message | Standardized exams are SATs you moron. Ans what national cirriculum are you talking about. I've seen nothing about a national cirriculum in Tukarali. |
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| yes | Total Seats: 252 |
| no | Total Seats: 179 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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