I think the most damaging thing I learned in school was that the “right answer” would always be something I had been specifically taught that didn’t require all that much thinking for myself. Wtf. I consciously unlearned it in college, but subconsciously I’m still not sure...https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1203348802679083008 …
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Divia Eden Retweeted Robin Hanson
This is where he loses me. Maybe the deal is that I went to a good school (I did). But my experience of k-12 was that the kids who did well on the tests pretty much all understood the material they were being tested on. Anyone else?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1203380537408327682?s=20 …
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In my experience, actually knowing the material is common for about a week around the test, but students don't learn it deeply enough to remember afterwards. In personal experience, there are a few (college) classes I don't care about where I'll skip classes and then cram.
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I expect I would see a strong correlation between tests scores as a kid and understanding of the subject now. But it’s tough because longterm understanding and test scores would be correlated even if “deep understanding at the time” weren’t an important causal variable.
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Oh yeah definitely. Some of this is that the sort of person who Actually Learns will do well to the test, some of this is that the sort of person who just wants to do well enough in class to not have to worry about it probably won't bother with straight As.
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