Evaluation seems to be more complicated than being just a four-syllable word.
Evaluation comes to the minds of many people as taking a pencil, getting a piece of paper with some random words or questions or whatever the "teacher" wants to write in order to screw them up.
I used to think evaluation as passing or failing. "People, you have a final exam and from this depends if you go to fifth grade or not." The teacher used to say. For my it was also getting a great christmas present or having my dad kicking my butt.
Every time I had an evaluation coming I started thinking on the consecuences: getting a reward or an undesirable slap on my face. this idea must change on every human being. Evaluation should be an instrument to show all the potential people have on the fields they feel comfortable at and have special qualifications and attitudes towars this specific areas. So what if a person is not good at math. Should this person flunk his or her educational process because the system feels he or she doesnt have all the potential needed? What if this person is a future Da Vinci or Beethoven. Just because the system demands this type of evaluation this person must feel restricted and deprived to show potential in other subjects or areas?
Think of these questions and try to inquire a little more if this is the kind of education our children need to improve this society.
Every time I had an evaluation coming I started thinking on the consecuences: getting a reward or an undesirable slap on my face. this idea must change on every human being. Evaluation should be an instrument to show all the potential people have on the fields they feel comfortable at and have special qualifications and attitudes towars this specific areas. So what if a person is not good at math. Should this person flunk his or her educational process because the system feels he or she doesnt have all the potential needed? What if this person is a future Da Vinci or Beethoven. Just because the system demands this type of evaluation this person must feel restricted and deprived to show potential in other subjects or areas?
Think of these questions and try to inquire a little more if this is the kind of education our children need to improve this society.
