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Bill: End High Stakes Testing
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2051
Description[?]:
| This bill will remove all national and provicial 'high stakes' tests, which includes but is not exclusive to: Graduation Tests Standardized Tests for Class Placement Standardized Tests for School Funding Standardized Tests for Admission This bill would not do away with testing, nor eliminate standardized tests, but would require these tests be only one of many criteria for evaluation. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:39:15, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | Hopefully we can all agree that tests are a poor method of assessing the skills and abilities of many students, and should not be the sole determinant of scholastic achievement. Unless there are any proponents of high stakes tests here, we would like to move this to a quick vote. |
| Date | 01:19:00, May 11, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | If you really want to go all out get rid of grades, and base evaluations on recommendations, projects, interviews, etc. We support. |
| Date | 02:31:59, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | While we certainly favor eliminating grades and replacing them with a qualitivate evaluation system, that is a decision that individual school boards should make on their own. Grades do not have the same negative consequences associated with high stakes testing, and so is not necessary to regulate. |
| Date | 04:19:00, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | WE beleive that a local school board is better at making this decision. |
| Date | 05:32:39, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | Also, these tests include basic reading writing and math tests. We're fine with agreeing that they should not be the sole determiner of achievement. Nevertheless, they are still important. Also, you have to ask yourself the question, if standardized tests are so useless that all they show is that someone has learned how to take the test, why do so many people do badly? |
| Date | 07:19:11, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | Because they haven't bee taught how to take the test? You answered your own question. And again, this bill would not eliminate standardized tests, it just prevents these tests from being used as the sole determinant for any criteria. |
| Date | 11:27:34, May 11, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | We support this bill. |
| Date | 17:34:23, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the End High Stakes Testing |
| Message | Looks good. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 100 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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