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Teachers views of how standardized testing has affected their classroom teaching Kristin-Can you make a list of the kinds of questions you plan to ask the teachers so that we can begin to work on the survey. Remember to ask very specific, clear questions that the answer you receive is answering the question you think you are asking. Mrs. Ashley

Questions I plan to ask:
 * How long have you been teaching?
 * What grade do you teach?
 * Has standardized testing effected your teaching?
 * Do you have as many "fun days" as you used to?
 * Do you feel that you can be creative when teaching lessons?
 * Do you teach straight fromt the test?
 * If you teach creatively, how do incoorperarte fun into the lesson?
 * Do you narrow the curriculum so you can teach everything the test is going to cover?

So you will be doing a lot of open ended questions? Or will you give them choices for the answers? Are you going to select teachers who have been teaching for a long time?

In my opinion i thought that open ended questions were better. This way the teachers can get their point across and say what they really want to say. It would be easier to compare the teachers too. Well because standardized test didnt't get really popular until a few years ago, i feel like i have to ask the teachers that have been teaching a longer time. Then again I think it would be good to ask a new teacher how they are affected by the standardized tests. Kristin, Open ended questions are fine. I just becomes a little harder to analyze, so leave a lot of time for that. The open ended questions will give you a richer, more personal response. The issue is that you may have 10 very different responses if you interview 10 people, so then you have to make sense out of it in your analysis. I like open ended and can help you figure out how you can do the analysis.We need to work more on the questions. Could you please write them up on a piece of paper and turn them in separately. Once you turn in your paper, begin to work on the survey. Check out Emelines senior exit page where I list some of the things that need to go on the survey before you ask the questions. Remember, I really like your idea for a study. Did you look at the utube video with Ken Robinson, he discusses standardized tests as well.