Testing < == > teaching

How about a quick observation regarding the relationship between teaching and testing?

Sep 02, 2025

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This post is not going to provide a thorough, scholarly analysis of the relationship between testing and teaching. It’s just a quick observation about the relationship.

I understand that some folks have a view of testing that is something like what is shown in the accompanying figure. Their vision of testing is rows of children sitting at tables equipped with little more than a writing instrument and a test booklet.

AI-generated image of students seated at individual desks taking tests with proctors watching over them.

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